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Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2012: A Call for Justice
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:00
- Written by Sean Cusack
Poets and poetry have played a central role in movements for social change since the art form’s conception thousands of years ago. In this age of mass consumption and manipulated mass media, poetry now more than ever acts as a means to give a voice to the voiceless, name the unnamable, and speaks directly to the individual and collective consciousness.
Continuing this long and vaunted tradition of social justice through the art form, the Split This Rock Poetry Festival will take place from March 22 – 25 in Washington DC. The festival will primarily take place at the Split This Rock Office with additional at the Thurgood Marshall Center.
Readings, workshops and panels featuring some of the nation’s most prominent contemporary poets will help to bring your craft to a new level as well as create common cause and celebrate poetry in the public sphere. The festival acts as a celebration of the many ways in which poets and poetry act as agents for social change by reaching across differences, asserting the ever-important right to free speech, and bearing witness to the ways in which expressing the diversity and complexities of life through language can help us to imagine a better world.
Panelists and workshop leaders include well-known poets such as Homero Aridjis, Sherwin Bitsui, Kathy Engel, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Douglas Kearney, Khaled Mattawa, Rachel McKibbens, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jose Padua, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Kim Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Venus Thrash, and Alice Walker. The festival also features a special panel honoring the life and legacy of celebrated poet-essayist-activist June Jordan.
This festival that is an event that is sure to impress and open one’s mind to the beauty and importance of poetry as a valuable tool for self-expression and social change.
For more information, visit SplitThisRock.org.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival
March 22-25, 2012
Split This Rock Office
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Thurgood Marshall Center
1816 12th Street
Washington, DC 20009
The New Yorker Festival
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 05:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The New Yorker Festival is taking place September 30 - October 2, 2011 at the SVA 
Theatre, Directors Guild Theatre, SIR Stage 37, New York by Gehry and (Le) Poisson Rouge in Manhattan, New York City.
The New Yorker Festival is all about writing -- doing it, reading it, watching the film adaptations, and meeting the scribes themselves.
Tales out of School 3: A New Yorker Night with The Moth
The Moth once again teams up with The New Yorker for an evening of stories about life at the magazine. With Ian Frazier, Raffi Khatchadourian, Jane Kramer, Robert Mankoff and Michael Specter, hosted by Andy Borowitz.
PEN World Voices Festival 2011
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Friday, 22 April 2011 07:43
- Written by Film FestivalTraveler Staff
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is being held April 25 - May 1
, 2011 at The Standard, New York, the 92nd Street Y and several other venues around New York City.
More than 100 writers from 40 nations convene in New York City to celebrate the power of the writer’s voice as a bold and vital element of public discourse. The program features panel discussions, one-on-one conversations, readings, performances, and much more.
And You Thought Angelenos Don’t Read: LA Times Festival of Books
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Saturday, 24 April 2010 06:10
- Written by Lynne Shannon
The annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is being held April 24-25, 2010 at the UCLA campus in Westwood. This event is the place where kids can watch their favorite books come alive, and readers eager to meet their favorite authors can choose from among 400 writers, along with panels, stage events, and other activities. And the panels are free!
