Split this Rock! Poetry Festival is happening this Thursday through Sunday! Below are the featured readings that are open to the public "a la carte" that you can attend. $8 admission, $5 students. Readings on Thursday at 8 pm, Friday at 5 and 8, Saturday at 5 and 8, and Sunday at noon. All readings, unless noted, are at Bell Multicultural High School, located at 16th and Irving St, NW, Close to the Columbia Heights Metro Yellow or Green line or accessible by metro bus S2 or S4 along 16th St.
Thursday, March 20th at 8:00pm
Featured Readings by:
MartÃn Espada
Sam Hamill
E. Ethelbert Miller
Naomi Shihab Nye
Alix Olson
Friday, March 21st at 5:00
Featured Readings by:
Grace Cavalieri
Stephen Kuusisto
Joel Dias Porter (DJ Renegade)
Ishle Yi Park
Winners of “The World & Me” Youth Poetry Contest
Friday, March 21st at 8:00
Featured Readings by:
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Brian Gilmore
Semezhdin Mehmedinovic
Patricia Smith
Jeffrey Thomson (Winner, STR Poetry Contest)
Susan Tichy
Saturday, March 22nd at 5:00
Featured Readings by:
Coleman Barks
Lucille Clifton
Pamela Uschuk
Belle Waring
Saturday, March 22nd at 8:00
Featured Readings by:
Dennis Brutus
Kenneth Carroll
Mark Doty
Carolyn Forche
Alicia Ostiker
Sunday, March 23rd at Noon
At The George Washington University
Cafritz Conference Center
800 21st Street, NW
Metro to Foggy Bottom, blue or orange line
Featured Readings by:
Galway Kinnell
Sharon Olds
For complete Bio's of readers and for more info:
http://www.splitthisrock.org/schedule.html
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