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Alice Walker

Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems

By Alice Walker Alice Walker performs the poem "Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Kathy Engel

Inaugural

By Kathy Engel Kathy Engel performs the poem "Inaugural" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Sherwin Bitsui

The Northern Sun

By Sherwin Bitsui Sherwin Bitsui performs the poem "The Northern Sun" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Naomi Shihab Nye

My Father, on dialysis / Shoulders

By Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shahib Nye performs the poems "My Father, on dialysis" and "Shoulders" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Sonia Sanchez

Poem for Split This Rock

By Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez performed this poem at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Anne Waldman

Allegorical Baraka

By Anne Waldman Anne Waldman reads "Allegorical Baraka" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Tim Seibles

One Turn Around the Sun

By Tim Seibles Tim Seibles performs "One Turn Around the Sun" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Aracelis Girmay

Break

By Aracelis Girmay When the boys are carnivals
we gather round them in the dark room
& they make their noise while drums
ricochet against their bodies & thin air
Brian Gilmore

philadelphia

By Brian Gilmore like fidel after raiding
moncada barracks

we face history like
seed removed from
soil
Rosa Chávez

We, stones, were branded by hot iron

By Rosa Chávez Ri oj ab'aj xkoj qetal ruk'a k'atanalaj ch'ich'
Xk'at ri qab'aq'wach //
Las piedras fuimos marcadas con hierro candente
quemados nuestros ojos //
We, stones, were branded by hot iron
our eyes scorched
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