DC Youth Slam Team

A @SplitThisRock program. The DC Youth Slam Team is a group of youth performance poets. Sign up for free virtual youth writing workshops:

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The monthly workshops are free & scheduled for Oct, Nov & Dec at Martin Luther King Jr. Library, American Poetry Museum, & Split This Rock's office off Dupont Circle. Check the workshop schedule to see which workshops work best for you: https://t.co/u4jjqIZSlc
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Under 25 & in DC? Join our writing community & wield the magic of words! Explore the power & possibility of #poetry with teaching artists Kenny Carroll, Lauren May, Alexa Patrick, Brandon Douglas & Ayinde Sekou Grimes. Free refreshments & masks. More info: https://t.co/u4jjqIZSlc

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Today on #GivingTuesday, help us raise $5,000 to pay poets for Poem of the Week in 2023 & you could be 1 of 5 donors who receive a copy of The Queer Cookies Cookbook! Donate online before midnight through Split This Rock’s Giving Tuesday donation portal: https://t.co/vENTiXgOcJ

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Reminder: applications for Split This Rock's open roles will be accepted on a rolling basis until we announce they are filled, and tomorrow, Wednesday, November 9, is the due date for best consideration!

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We're hiring a full-time Literary Arts Programs Director, a key member of our shared, consensus-based leadership team focused on poetry event planning & curation. Benefits: healthcare package, 4-day/32-hr week & paid time off. Apply by Nov 9: https://t.co/IxP3xl5kiB
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We're hiring a full-time Managing Director, a key member of our shared, consensus-based leadership team focused on fundraising, finances & operations. Benefits include healthcare package, 4-day (32-hr) work week & paid time off. Apply by Nov 9: https://t.co/IxP3xl5kiB
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Help us spread the word: Split This Rock is hiring! We're looking for a Literary Arts Programs Director, Managing Director, & Grant Writer to join our team. For best consideration, apply by Wednesday, November 9. Learn more about the roles & how to apply: https://t.co/IxP3xl5kiB

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Content Notice: refers to sexual assault; coerced forgiveness

Was not just / “being a boy”— Had no reputation— / Had no warning signs—

Poem of the Week is Zefyr Lisowksi’s “Against Forgiveness.” Poem as audio and text: https://t.co/4wqY2eN1re

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CW: chattel slavery; anti-Black violence

I got stolen blood. / My complexion is America’s // darkest hour.

Poem of the Week: “The Such Thing As the Ridiculous Question –" by Siaara Freeman. Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/KX1KtRAwo2

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Content Notice: incarceration & death

inside / his heart / (inside / a cell) / a cluster / of cells // arrested

Poem of the Week is “For My Cousin Manny Who Died in Prison" by Cintia Santana. Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/EzJhgW1EyU

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Ate boiled hotdogs on white bread, ramen noodles with little water / Guzzled maple syrup sweetened kool-aid, no sugar for us brothas.

Poem of the Week is “Blood” by Jorrell Watkins. Poem as audio & text at The Quarry: https://t.co/Yd2Wh1NRkH

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Content Notice: ableism & medical trauma

We are not patient. We are denied. / Not medically necessary, they say, not proven. / Feel free to appeal.

Poem of the Week is "Patients" by Aurora Levins Morales. #Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/ykwuGohhcC
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CW: refers to anti-Black filicide; grief

When I construct you / meet you safe in redwood shade / your body breathes a wingspan

Poem of the Week is "THE MAGIC YOUR BODY BECOMES" by Michal 'MJ' Jones. Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/9PS5jax64K

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Content Notice: cancer

The doctor said / I couldn’t dance, or run, or lift a ceramic mug / for fear the bone might break, the break might spread / malignancy

Poem of the Week is "Bone Tumor" by Leigh Sugar. #Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/AsQjjglmne
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Eternal gratitude to @BPJTweets for first publishing this poem & @SplitThisRock for giving this piece a permanent online home in your archives ♥️

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“Disability justice makes so much possible, it makes everything possible. It is connected to everything. And I love to imagine a world where our well-being is prioritized, period. Because that is what we are talking about when we talk about disability justice…” – Camisha Jones

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My senses always fall in love: / they spin, swoon; // they lose themselves in one / another’s arms.

Poem of the Week is “Swoon” by David James "DJ" Savarese. Poem as audio & text at The Quarry: https://t.co/hhCE7kCpYo

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TONIGHT, 6-6:45 pm ET: gather with us for a live-streamed evening of conversation & poetry with Camisha Jones & Danez Smith. ASL & CART provided.

This will be a conversation you don't want to miss -- spread the word & bring a friend!

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Excited to share that I'll be a featured artist at the @kencen on Saturday, August 20 as part of the #OpenDoorsFestival! The festival features a day of free events celebrating the intersection of arts and #disability https://t.co/yFrQord9N9