http://www.streetsense.org/2010/03/poetry-festival-promotes-social-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poetry-festival-promotes-social-change Where the Washington area's poor and homeless earn and give their two cents Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.streetsense.org/2010/03/poetry-festival-promotes-social-change/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Heeyoung Park Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:18:22 +0000 http://streetsense.org/?p=2248#comment-385 I came across this article by chance trying to read something about poetry for social change, and I gotta say this is a beautiful way to help change those people's lives for the better. Thanks for posting this! I came across this article by chance trying to read something about poetry for social change, and I gotta say this is a beautiful way to help change those people’s lives for the better. Thanks for posting this!

]]> http://www.streetsense.org/2010/03/poetry-festival-promotes-social-change/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Janet Aalfs Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:25:05 +0000 http://streetsense.org/?p=2248#comment-47 Thank you for this very uplifting article about how poetry truly does change lives, and for being a strong presence of healing and change. As the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali expresses in "Twigs" -- ...And so/ it has taken me/ all of sixty years/ to understand/ that water is the finest drink,/ and bread the most delicious food,/ and that art is worthless/ unless it plants/ a measure of splendor in people's hearts." I look forward to seeing folks at "Split This Rock" where there is infinite splendor! Thank you for this very uplifting article about how poetry truly does change lives, and for being a strong presence of healing and change.
As the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali expresses in “Twigs” — …And so/ it has taken me/ all of sixty years/ to understand/ that water is the finest drink,/ and bread the most delicious food,/ and that art is worthless/ unless it plants/ a measure of splendor in people’s hearts.” I look forward to seeing folks at “Split This Rock” where there is infinite splendor!

]]> http://www.streetsense.org/2010/03/poetry-festival-promotes-social-change/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Sarah Browning Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:32:05 +0000 http://streetsense.org/?p=2248#comment-46 Thank you for this terrific article, Sonja! Readers are all invited to the mainstage readings during Split This Rock, every evening at Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights. Tickets cost $8/ $5 for students. All the details of the festival are at: www.splitthisrock.org. We hope to see you out for poetry and inspiration! Thank you for this terrific article, Sonja! Readers are all invited to the mainstage readings during Split This Rock, every evening at Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights. Tickets cost $8/ $5 for students. All the details of the festival are at: http://www.splitthisrock.org. We hope to see you out for poetry and inspiration!

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