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Split This Rock cultivates, teaches, and celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes social change.
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Dear Community,

In about 3 months, Split This Rock returns from fallow season! Poem of the Week will begin again and The Quarry online social justice poetry database will continue to expand its offerings. As part of the Poetry Coalition, we’ll offer a month of themed programming in April. Board members will be staffing a table at the AWP book fair at the end of March to begin re-engagement. We’re excited to unveil more of our plans as April draws closer! 

In the meantime, this month we’re thrilled to shine a spotlight on poems that rock our world. First up are the 6 poems Split This Rock nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Check them out below. Throughout the month, we invite you to join us in drinking from the wellspring of poetry as we present a round up of favorites from The Quarry.

We know well how a single poem is a perpetual gift to its audience -- nourishing us again each time we receive it. We hope the poems we share this month blossom into an infinite resource of creative stimulation, activation, inspiration, and soothing for you. 

We're gathering seeds for a big opportunity -- you're the key! The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation has once again gifted us with a challenge grant. For every donation from a new supporter or increased gift from an existing donor we receive, they will match it -- up to $15,000! If you believe in what Split This Rock embodies, how it holds space, and what it is uniquely positioned and equipped to do in the field of poetry, would you help us secure this $30,000 investment by giving your best gift today? 

Visit Split This Rock's online giving portal to make a one-time donation or become a sustaining monthly donor today.

Every donation during fallow season helps prepare us for a harvest of programming & work culture more deeply rooted in our core values. Learn more about what we're striving to manifest in Split This Rock's future at our website.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed time, energy, and resources throughout the years -- and especially during the pandemic! Your investments and partnerships make Split This Rock's bravest efforts possible.


With appreciation always,

Split This Rock
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Fallow Season Thought of the Day
“Our worth is not dependent on what and how much we can produce.”

Celebrating Split This Rock
2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
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We are ecstatic to celebrate 6 poems that moved us this year! Here are Split This Rock's 2022 Pushcart Prize nominations:


“Equinox”
By Tamiko Beyer


By I.S. Jones


“Remembrance”
By Kateema Lee


“Stone”
By Aideed Medina


By Emily K. Michael


By Laura Tohe


Access the full list of nominated poems by visiting the 2022 Pushcart Prize special collection at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database.
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Photo Credits: I. S. Jones by Nicholas Nichols, Tamiko Beyer by Susi Franco, Kateema Lee by Khalia Jackson, Emily K. Michael by Chelsea Whiteman, Laura Tohe by J Morgan Edwards.
Tell Us About Your New Books!
As much as we'd like to cheer for all the new books that arrive or get announced between now and April 1, 2022, we know our capacity to do so with much fairness is limited during fallow season. We are continuing to pay attention to new publications and poets that we might spotlight when we relaunch next year. To tell us about your new book or a new book you think we should know about, complete this short online form. We've also started a thread on Twitter as an open invitation to alert us about new books -- please chime in!
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While Split This Rock is in its fallow season and the Poem of the Week Series is on pause, we hope you'll continue visiting The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. There you'll find:

  • a FREE online resource for educators, organizers, poets -- everyone!
  • over 600 poems, searchable by social justice themes, poet identity, geography, format, and more
  • a celebration of contemporary socially engaged poets

If you're moved to share the poems, we welcome you to do so with credit to the poet & The Quarry.



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