Event details

On Tuesday August 18 at 7pm CST, the founding members of the Poetry Coalition will present One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives.  The virtual reading will be broadcast live via Crowdcast and YouTube (closed captioning available).

With readings by Sojourner Ahebee, Alberto Ríos, Kimberly Jae, Kazim Ali, Mwatabu Okantah, Kimberly Blaeser, avery r. young, Monica Youn, Matthew (“mattmatt radio”) Thompson, Martín Espada, Prisca Afantchao, Raina J. León, Sesshu Foster, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Emma Trelles, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Meera Dasgupta, Kwame Dawes, Terisa Siagatonu, and Safia Elhillo.

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The Poetry Coalition is a national alliance of more than 25 organizations dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. Members are nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to promote poets and poetry, and/or multi-genre literary organizations that serve poets with disabilities and of specific racial, ethnic, or gender identities, backgrounds, or communities. All members present poets at live events. Each March, members also present programming across the country on a theme of social importance. The Poetry Coalition is coordinated by the Academy of American Poets and we are grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its support of this work.