Celebrate our nominations for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology! Revisit or discover evocative poems by Dorsía Smith Silva, Jonny Teklit, Lehua M. Taitano, Mandy Shunnarah, Mia S. Willis & Quenton Baker for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/3ZFwcfG #BestoftheNet #Poetry

Celebrate our nominations for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology! Revisit or discover evocative poems by Dorsía Smith Silva, Jonny Teklit, Lehua M. Taitano, Mandy Shunnarah, Mia S. Willis & Quenton Baker for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/3ZFwcfG #BestoftheNet #Poetry

Right now, your gift in support of poetry for social change will be DOUBLED! Help us unlock a $25,000 challenge grant, which represents over 80% of our $68,750 fundraising goal to secure Split This Rock's future. Spread the word & donate online today to double your impact: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock

Right now, your gift in support of poetry for social change will be DOUBLED! Help us unlock a $25,000 challenge grant, which represents over 80% of our $68,750 fundraising goal to secure Split This Rock's future. Spread the word & donate online today to double your impact: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock

That’s a wrap on our Youth Activist Poetry Anthology summer program hosted in partnership with Shout Mouse Press! For 6 weeks, 20 young poets from the DC area gathered for political education & poetry workshops. Check out the behind the scenes from the program: bit.ly/47Xc1jg #DCarts #DCpoets

That’s a wrap on our Youth Activist Poetry Anthology summer program hosted in partnership with Shout Mouse Press! For 6 weeks, 20 young poets from the DC area gathered for political education & poetry workshops. Check out the behind the scenes from the program: bit.ly/47Xc1jg #DCarts #DCpoets

Dream with us! As we fundraise toward a more sustainable future for Split This Rock, we want to know: what programming most excites you? All ideas will be considered by staff & board as we reimagine the organization’s work. Share your ideas with us: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets #Poetry

Looking for ways to plug into Split This Rock’s fundraising efforts? Share your experience with our programs! Your testimonial helps us demonstrate the importance of our work. Share your experience with us by filling out this brief form: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets #Poetry

Dream with us! As we fundraise toward a more sustainable future for Split This Rock, we want to know: what programming most excites you? All ideas will be considered by staff & board as we reimagine the organization’s work. Share your ideas with us: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets #Poetry

Your gift in support of poetry for social change will be DOUBLED right now! Your $25 donation becomes $50. Your $50 donation becomes $100. Your $500 donation becomes $1,000. Donate today to double your impact and help us unlock this $25,000 challenge grant: bit.ly/GiveSplitThi... #poetry #poets

Want to attend a Split This Rock fundraising event? We're gathering community with in-person events in Washington, DC & virtual events to connect to the heart of Split This Rock’s work & raise funds to keep it going. Get your name on the list: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets

Your gift in support of poetry for social change will be DOUBLED right now! Your $25 donation becomes $50. Your $50 donation becomes $100. Your $500 donation becomes $1,000. Donate today to double your impact and help us unlock this $25,000 challenge grant: bit.ly/GiveSplitThi... #poetry #poets

@splitthisrock.bsky.social needs our support! #SplitThisRock is a great source of inspiration, potential, and opportunity for the DC Area community, lit. & otherwise. Let's help keep its lights on. Spread the word, donate time or $$. Read on. 🙏💙

We're excited to announce a generous challenge grant from the Poetry Foundation! Gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for their support. Gifts we receive in the coming weeks will be DOUBLED, up to $25,000. Double your impact & donate today! DONATE ONLINE: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock #Poetry

Want to attend a Split This Rock fundraising event? We're gathering community with in-person events in Washington, DC & virtual events to connect to the heart of Split This Rock’s work & raise funds to keep it going. Get your name on the list: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets

We're excited to announce a generous challenge grant from the Poetry Foundation! Gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for their support. Gifts we receive in the coming weeks will be DOUBLED, up to $25,000. Double your impact & donate today! DONATE ONLINE: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock #Poetry

Looking for ways to plug into Split This Rock’s fundraising efforts? Share your experience with our programs! Your testimonial helps us demonstrate the importance of our work. Share your experience with us by filling out this brief form: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock #Poets #Poetry

THANK YOU, COMMUNITY! We unlocked the $3,000 challenge grant from The Cynipid Fund and raised $6,000. Deep gratitude to The Cynipid Fund, and to all who donated and shared. Together is how we navigate tumultuous times. Let’s keep this energy going! Learn more: bit.ly/4mIaRMJ

THANK YOU, COMMUNITY! We unlocked the $3,000 challenge grant from The Cynipid Fund and raised $6,000. Deep gratitude to The Cynipid Fund, and to all who donated and shared. Together is how we navigate tumultuous times. Let’s keep this energy going! Learn more: bit.ly/4mIaRMJ

With heavy hearts, we share that Split This Rock must suspend its work for the time being. Your support can help us make this pause temporary. This is a rallying call to help us bridge a $68,750 funding gap. Read the full announcement & learn how you can help: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock

With heavy hearts, we share that Split This Rock must suspend its work for the time being. Your support can help us make this pause temporary. This is a rallying call to help us bridge a $68,750 funding gap. Read the full announcement & learn how you can help: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock

This week, Split This Rock offers a Poetry & Shelter Playlist as part of this year’s Poetry Coalition themed programming. These 12 poems curated from The Quarry explore the power of our imaginations to hold one another in tenderness, care, and generosity. Tune in: bit.ly/45cXLzT #PoetryAndShelter

This week, Split This Rock offers a Poetry & Shelter Playlist as part of this year’s Poetry Coalition themed programming. These 12 poems curated from The Quarry explore the power of our imaginations to hold one another in tenderness, care, and generosity. Tune in: bit.ly/45cXLzT #PoetryAndShelter

Content Notice: refers to the Cambodian Genocide A daughter of survivors stands in the grass among tattered military tanks. She is the only one in her family who wants to visit the museum. Poem of the Week: “Self-Portrait as War Museum Captions" by Monica Sok. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/3GVQXP0

We're feeling deep grief in the wake of the news of poet Andrea Gibson's passing. It was a blessing to be a part of sharing their incredible work, as a featured poet at the 2010 Festival & through Poem of the Week. Wishing everyone who loved Andrea care in the midst of this loss.

the invisible birth waters rain from our past already bewater our future Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets

If I could do my life all over again, I would leave footprints in / the mud every time a storm drifted past. Poem of the Week: “APOTHEOSIS: DROUGHT" by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. The poem is available as audio & text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/3IiBWXY #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry

Thank you to @splitthisrock.bsky.social for including me in The Quarry! This poem surprised me one morning during a twenty minute writing practice. I hope it moves you.

O anything is possible in water’s memory. we could be ‘bout anything. Poem of the Week: “Last Century, Last Week: Holy Will" by Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social Poem available as audio & text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4jTJIot #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry

Then the dish in the air touches down at its place on red carpet Poem of the Week: “Immigration" by Yanyi @yanyiii.com The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/45WBzMw #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets

TOMORROW! 🌟 [glowing star emoji] Join us for the last youth writing workshop in the series! Come through American Poetry Museum in DC for an evening of creativity with teaching artist Brandon Douglas. See you there! #FreeinDC #DCpoets #DCwriters #DCarts #DC

Content Notice: cancer I cannot remember the last time we held hands Poem of the Week: “Cutting my dad’s fingernails" by Adrian Gaston Garcia. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4lbHq53 #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #DCPoets

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! #DCpoets #DCpoetry #FreeinDC #DC #DCarts #DCyouth

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 #DCpoets #DCpoetry #DC

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 #FreeinDC #DCarts #DC

I AM NOT / ALWAYS FIXED - I AM TRYING ALWAYS NEW MOVEMENTS Poem of the Week is “Obligation #25 (TRANSACTION)" by Jzl Jmz. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4mOLwlh @jxzzhndz.bsky.social‬ #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets

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 #DCpoets #DCpoetry #DC

Split This Rock's June newsletter is hot off the press! Take a look for more information about our current call for support, two writing workshops for young poets, the latest from the Poem of the Week series, writing inspiration & a reading from our archives: bit.ly/3ZnUnQP #Poetry #DC #Poets

TONIGHT! ⏰ [alarm clock emoji] Young people 25 & under in DC, come through for a free writing workshop at American Poetry Museum! See you there!

Soft numb resilience, wing me a story. Scratch me a skin poem. Chase the sparrow’s tail, roll the boulder. Poem of the Week is “Cedar Waxwing, Pyracantha II" by Lehua M. Taitano. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: bit.ly/4jvygPJ #Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem #Poet

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The next free Celebrating Neurodiversity workshop will be June 11, 6-8 pm at the American Poetry Museum in DC. Teaching Artist Lauren May will facilitate. For more info about Lauren & the workshop, visit Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/3OeyldW #FreeinDC #DCarts #DC #DCpoets

Content Notice: grief; refers to Transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans every cloud that rolls off the ocean / pours my dead on me Poem of the Week is “I AM IN THE WEATHER" by Quenton Baker. The poem is available as audio & text at The Quarry: bit.ly/3Z1WSbs #Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem

Will you give today to help Split This Rock foster the next generation of DC’s emerging youth poet activists? Together, we can nurture safe, welcoming spaces for young people to develop their voices & share their art. Learn how you can make a difference: bit.ly/SupportYouth... #DCarts #DC #DCpoets

Help us fund the Youth Activist Poetry Anthology Project! Your donation empowers young people to deepen their political understanding & give voice to their truths with poetry. Will you help us protect & amplify their words by giving your best gift today? bit.ly/SupportYouth... #Poetry #DC #DCarts

TONIGHT! ⏰ [alarm clock emoji] Come through to write poems with Split This Rock teaching artist Brandon Douglas! DC Community, please share this free workshop with the creative young people in your life. #DC #FreeinDC #DCpoets #DCarts #DCwriters

TOMORROW ⏰ [alarm clock emoji] Come through to write poems with Split This Rock teaching artist Brandon Douglas! If you're in or near DC, please share this free workshop with the creative young people in your life. See you there! #DC #FreeinDC #DCpoets #DCarts #DCwriters

Content Notice: adoption trauma & grief While all sets of my Mothers and Fathers remain whole I end up divided by my Fami(lies) Half way in each Fully in neither Poem of the Week is “Not Equal to Family (Reduced Down to Me)" by Ryan Jafar Artes. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/4dseItO #Poetry #Poem

Help us fund the Youth Activist Poetry Anthology Project! Your donation empowers young people to deepen their political understanding & give voice to their truths with poetry. Will you help us protect & amplify their words by giving your best gift today? bit.ly/SupportYouth... #Poetry #DC #DCarts

Read poems, get paid: Split This Rock is hiring a First Reader to join our curation team for the Poem of the Week Series! Applications are due June 1st. Learn more about the role & apply today at Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/3SzvMV9 #poets #DCpoets #DCarts #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

NEXT WEEK ✨ [sparkles emoji] Come through to write poems with Split This Rock teaching artist Brandon Douglas! If you're in or near DC, please share this free workshop with the creative young people in your life. See you there! #DC #FreeinDC #DCarts #DCpoets