Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger

Featuring readers from an e-Collection of Poems from Around the World

Saturday October 23, 2021 – 2pm EST

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09

Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102

Join us as we mark the publication of a ground-breaking collection of poems that Speak Back to Hunger.  Several poets from near and far will read their work from the collection.  And notable anti-hunger advocates will speak about the role that poetry can and should play in fighting hunger.  We’ll also have time for questions and discussion.

Hunger needs an audience. This anthology is giving it one. A poet’s job is to speak the
truth:  Teri Cross Davis says, “Shoo away the vulture, whose crime is hers too, hunger…”;
Henry Crawford says, “On those nights I made an apple out of sand / and watched it blow
away.”This truthful book speaks about “being gripped by hunger like a fist in his belly”; 
Listen hard to the hungry people. Let the poets speak.
– Mary Ann Larkin, Poet, Maryland, USA

Poetry X Hunger thanks the following supporters and partners: The Maryland State Arts Council, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Liaison Office for North America, the Capital Area Food Bank, AaronR, Rebecca Roach and Diane Wilbon Parks, and Drs. Susan Schram and Tatiana LeGrand.

Host Hiram Larew

Followed by Q&A and Discussion