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TOMORROW: Gather with us on Thursday, December 11 at Busboys & Poets 450K for a joyful celebration! Get your tickets online: bit.ly/4oyqbMy

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DC EVENT! Gather in person for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock, ft. Clint Smith on 12/11 at Busboys & Poets 450K! There will be a live DJ, raffle prizes, tarot readings, special guest readers & more as we fundraise to bridge a funding gap. Get tickets: bit.ly/4oyqbMy
EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!
Join us for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!At the heart of Split This Rock’s work has always been an insistence that poetry for liberation does not happen in isolation, ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NEXT WEEK: the last youth writing workshop in the Celebrating Neurodiversity Series! Come through American Poetry Museum in DC for an evening of creativity with teaching artist Brandon Douglas. See you there!

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
The last free Celebrating Neurodiversity Youth Workshop will be on June 25, 6-8 pm at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC with Teaching Artist Brandon Douglas.

Learn more about Brandon & the workshop at Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/4mYSp3q

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Youth Writing Workshop Series | Programs | Split This Rock
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"My feet beg to be squeezed/As if they were size 10 Meyer lemons..." @regie.bsky.social is DC Pride Poem-a-Day's feature with "Ode to My Sandals." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Split This Rock is thrilled to announce three new members on our Board of Directors: Alexa Patrick, Danielle Badra, and Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez!

Get to know them and all present members of the Board at Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/43B9hWw

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June 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Everyone looks at me like a lying stranger, a voyeur in the dorm's collective shower." Danielle Evennou is poet of the day with "Promulgate: Triple Haibun" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry #dcpride www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"...a Democrat, a gender extremist, and a cultural Marxist/Walk into a bar..." From the featured poem of the day in DC Pride Poems, "My Struggle," by Jessica Austin. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM