https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 400 years in the making Is America finally ready to confront the past, present and future of systemic racism? What do you think? Poets Respond People in the street demanding the end of systemic racism, recognizing that it is embedded as normal practice, leading to discrimination in […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Virtual Poetry Reading: International Workers’ Day Anthology May 1st is International Workers’ Day, a time of celebration and opposition throughout the world, except in the United States where it began. May Day commemorates the May 1st, 1886 nationwide protest for the eight-hour day and the following […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology Nonsense Verse, a perfect way to look at today’s world. It is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, establishing a new reality separate from this one. Creative use of distortion, fantasy, surrealism, the impossible, opposites, made-up language form tensions between […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: The American War Against Herself Anthology Poems about guns, violence, and the wars within America for Memorial Day May 31 Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Purhcase the Anthology “liberty, equality, fraternity” the national motto of France A legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, the motto “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. It was written into the 1958 constitution and is nowadays […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Protest 2021 Anthology with 100 Thousand Poets for Change https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Moonstone Arts Center celebrates 11 years of 100 Thousand Poets for Change with readings from our new anthology Protest 2021 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100 TPC) has organized over 5000 poetry, art and […]
Readings from Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102 Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest Edited by Ona Gritz & Taylor Carmen Savath From the introduction by Ona Gritz: “It is difficult to get the news from poems,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “yet […]
Virtual Poetry Reading Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement Sunday October 10, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102 Léopold Sédar Senghor (10/9/1906 – 12/20/2001) and the Négritude Movement In May 1935, the word ‘Négritude’ appeared for the first time in the only issue of the […]
