• the very first youth slam at the National Book Festival
• how to qualify for the DC Youth Slam Team
• Split This Rock's new writing workshop series
• the launch of a monthly house party series
• Fall for the Book festival events featuring Linda Hogan
• the Sunday Kind of Love line-up
• our annual poetry contest, and
• the dates for Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016

So much poetry in store! We hope you'll be able to participate!

SPLIT THIS ROCK BRINGS 

YOUTH SLAM TO THE

2014 NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL

 

 

Stage [Hearts] Page

2014 National Book Festival

Saturday, August 30 / 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 

Poetry & Prose Pavillion at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC)

 

For the first time ever, the National Book Festival will include a youth poetry slam. The slam will include youth from DC's top youth slam groups: the DC Youth Slam Team and Louder Than a Bomb DMV. Champion delegates from both groups will compete to be named the city's top youth slam poet, by performing new works on the subject of books and reading. 

 

Judges will include national and international slam champion Gayle Danley, Tanuja Desai Hidier, author of Born Confused, and Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin. The emcee for the slam will be Beltway Grand Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo.

 

The event is a collaboration among the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Split This Rock. Read more here.

We are thankful to all who invested in the voices of Split This Rock's 2014 DC Youth Slam Team members. The young poets' moving poetry bearing witness to injustice and celebrating survival earned them the title of 2014 Brave New Voices (BNV) champs! 

Are you in search of an opportunity to connect with other writers, practice your craft, and grow as a writer? For only $5, you're invited to join us for writing workshops on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, beginning September 3. We'll bring the writing prompts. You bring the creativity! No RSVP required - drop in. Open to ALL ages and levels of experience. 

  

As part of George Mason University's annual Fall for the Book festival, Split This Rock is offering several events featuring Linda Hogan as well as a panel discussion on poetic & intellectual freedom.

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

 

Poetry Workshop led by Linda Hogan 

Sept. 14 * 2-4:30 pm * $25 - scholarships available

Register here.

Institute for Policy Studies Conference Rm.
 1112 16th St. NW (DC)

 Linda Hogan Reading

Sept. 14 * 6:30-8 pm * $5
 Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW (DC)

 Linda Hogan Reading 

Sept. 15 * 4:30-5:45 pm * FREE
 George Mason University Johnson Ctr. Plaza, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA

 

Poetic & Intellectual Freedom Panel Discussion
 Sept. 16 * 4:30-5:45pm * FREE (Fall for the Book)
 George Mason University Johnson Ctr. Plaza, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA

We are the ones we have been waiting for. Split This Rock is a community movement. Without all of us, we can't bring poetry into the center of public life - where it belongs. 

Keep an eye out for a special invitation to an afternoon of mingling, delicious treats, and essential poetry. Hosted by Andy and Marjan Shallal, this event will be the first in a monthly series spreading the word about the work of Split This Rock. Come to have fun but also to hear why others choose to invest in Split This Rock and consider joining with them.

Please support Split This Rock and help bring poetry to the center of public life - where it belongs! Donations are fully tax-deductible.

Click here to donate. Or send a check payable to "Split This Rock" to: Split This Rock, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036. Many thanks!

Contact [email protected] for more details or to become a sponsor.