View from below of a five-pointed lighted chandelier against the background of a white ceiling.. geometric and sparkly.
Star-shaped lights above the table where we met to share poems. A photo memory from the first year of the LGBTQ Poetry Fellowship at the Arts Club of Washington in 2023. So happy that this project has continued with other poets! #dcpoetry
TOMORROW: Gather with us on Thursday, December 11 at Busboys & Poets 450K for a joyful celebration! Get your tickets online: bit.ly/4oyqbMy
#DC #DCarts #DCpoetry #DCpoets
"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
NEXT WEEK: the last youth writing workshop in the Celebrating Neurodiversity Series! Come through American Poetry Museum in DC for an evening of creativity with teaching artist Brandon Douglas. See you there!
#DCpoets #DCpoetry #FreeinDC #DC #DCarts #DCyouth
DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"My feet beg to be squeezed/As if they were size 10 Meyer lemons..." @regie.bsky.social is DC Pride Poem-a-Day's feature with "Ode to My Sandals." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Split This Rock’s red logo is centered above a bold heading: “Meet our new board members.” There are three columns with each board member’s photo in a circular frame at the top as well as their names and a brief description of their work. Alexa Patrick is a vocalist, poet, teaching artist, and Program Director at Shout Mouse Press. Danielle Badra is a poet, the 2022-2024 Fairfax County Poet Laureate & creator of Poetry in the Parks. Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez is a poet, teaching artist, and Senior Program Director of Poetry & Community Arts at DC SCORES. At the bottom, a URL: splitthisrock.org.
Split This Rock is thrilled to announce three new members on our Board of Directors: Alexa Patrick, Danielle Badra, and Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez!
Get to know them and all present members of the Board at Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/43B9hWw
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"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Everyone looks at me like a lying stranger, a voyeur in the dorm's collective shower." Danielle Evennou is poet of the day with "Promulgate: Triple Haibun" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry #dcpride www.pridepoems.com
"...a Democrat, a gender extremist, and a cultural Marxist/Walk into a bar..." From the featured poem of the day in DC Pride Poems, "My Struggle," by Jessica Austin. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com
"In the kingdom of her body are the redwoods,/thighs that rise & rise..." DC Pride Poems proudly presents Xochi Quetzali Cartland reading "Ode to the Old Growth Forest"! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
"The first time/you will meet my daughter You will be wearing an/inappropriate t-shirt. the first time/I meet your mom I will be wearing my robe." DC Pride Poem-a-Day starts off with a BANG with "Time Traveling" by Angelique Palmer! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
Split This Rock’s red logo is in the upper left-hand corner above an illustration of a bright, multi-colored brain surrounded by sparkle and clouds, with a stack of blank paper below. Text reads “Youth Writing Workshop Series. Celebrating Neurodiversity. March 26, April 30, May 28, June 11 & 25. 6-8 pm. FREE. American Poetry Museum. 716 Monroe St NE #25 Washington, DC 20017. Learn more: splitthisrock.org.”
Under 25 & near Washington, #DC? Join us for 5 free writing workshops celebrating neurodiversity, breaking the binary between "neurodivergent" & "neurotypical" & promoting disability justice.
The 1st workshop is March 26, 6-8 pm, at American Poetry Museum. More Info: bit.ly/3OeyldW
#DCPoetry #DMV
Photograph of Elisavietta "Lisa" Ritchie set alongside her poem, "Advice To A Daughter". In the photo Ritchie is lying on the ground amidst fallen autumn leaves reading an open book. Her poem, "Advice To A Daughter," reads: Do not gnaw chicken bones before a lover, I tell her, as we crunch the cartilage of a hapless hen. Could put him off, give rise to thoughts you might have taste for more than skin. My lover is so meticulous he uses knife and fork, misses deep pleasures. I have to sneak to the kitchen, chew both our drumsticks clean before I scrape the plates. The best is what some call the parson’s nose, others term the pope’s, the rabbi’s. My mother said: What scuttles through the fence the last is surely the most succulent. So while our chicken stews apart you and I retrieve the bubbling bone gnaw, and juices trickling down our chins, weigh the risks of loss: either a fastidious lover or the choice parts of a bird.
DC's literary community is mourning another loss, first Myra Sklarew, now the bohemian force of nature Elisavietta “Lisa” Ritchie who was one of the early leading lights of @wwph.bsky.social Here's a poem of hers. For more about her see www.washingtonwriters.org/in-memoriam/
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