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Split This Rock: Poem of the Week: Lee Sharkey

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Friday, May 1, 2015. Poem of the Week: Lee Sharkey. Man on a Sofa. A man is lying on a sofa. The man has been reading. He has laid down the book beside him. The man's form is waiting to be occupied. Give him a name,. Say; look how the form fills in,. As if you could read, in Henry's limbs,. In Henry's countenance,. Henry's dreams dancing in his head. The book by his side is Henry's companion. The book beside Henry is writing itself as we speak. Somehow it has taken the place of the man,. Puckerbrush Pres...

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Split This Rock: Poem of the Week: Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner

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Friday, May 8, 2015. Poem of the Week: Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner. Need, desperate need, eagle-taloned need. Is a pumping drill. The oil sloshes. To the brim. The lid slams and it’s a tanker. Spewing smoke. It burps and hisses. Into a truck. It barrels through highways. It pours. Down underground. It’s a gas pump and a car. And a stopping and a refilling and a continuing. It pulls over at the side of a tall tree. It chops and strips and grinds and pounds. Until dead fish float downstream. Original, the ...

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Split This Rock: September 2014

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Thursday, September 25, 2014. Poem of the Week: Chen Chen. Set the Garden on Fire. My friend’s new neighbors in the suburbs. Are planting a neat row of roses. Between her house and theirs. Her neighbors smile, say the roses are part. Of a community garden project, that’s all. But they whisper, too—whisper plans for trees,. A wall of them. They plant rumors. That her house is hiding illegals, when it’s aunts. Uncles, visiting. They grow tall accusations. Fed by talk radio, that her house was bought. CURA:...

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Split This Rock: Reginald Dwayne Betts' Letter to Howard University on E. Ethelbert Miller's Termination After 40 Years

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Monday, April 13, 2015. Reginald Dwayne Betts' Letter to Howard University on E. Ethelbert Miller's Termination After 40 Years. Dear Dr. Frederick:. A few days ago I was devastated to learn that Howard University is letting Ethelbert Miller go after a career and commitment to the institution that has lasted longer than the thirty-four years I’ve been alive. JD Candidate, 2016. Labels: E. Ethelbert Miller. April 13, 2015 at 1:12 PM. April 13, 2015 at 2:19 PM. This termination of ethelbert is the worst thi...

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Split This Rock: Poem of the Week: Ross Gay

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Friday, April 24, 2015. Poem of the Week: Ross Gay. A Small Needful Fact. Is that Eric Garner worked. For some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means,. Perhaps, that with his very large hands,. Perhaps, in all likelihood,. He put gently into the earth. Some plants which, most likely,. Some of them, in all likelihood,. Continue to grow, continue. To do what such plants do, like house. And feed small and necessary creatures,. Like being pleasant to touch and smell,. Janet Vickers...

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Split This Rock: Haiku Postcards to the President

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Monday, April 20, 2015. Haiku Postcards to the President. At the 2015 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Split This Rock asked people that stopped by our table to write a haiku to President Obama. Here are some of the standouts with the poems in text after each postcard. WORDS OF CHANGE,. COLD ON THE PAGE, FLARE IN THE. FLAMES OF BURNING BOOKS. You don't know me. We are the same, yet different. Like leaves, related; strangers. How peaceful can we. Be," said earth to the humans. Jonat...

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Split This Rock: 2016 Poetry Contest

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Monday, July 13, 2015. Announcing the 9th Annual. Split This Rock P. Judged by: Rigoberto Gonz. Photo by Marion Ettlinger. Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival. April 14-17, 2016. 1,000 Awarded for poems of provocation and witness. DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 201 5. First place $500; 2nd and 3rd place, $250 each. And within The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Up to three honorable mentions will be selected . November 1, 2015. 20, which supports Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016. Which won the ...

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Split This Rock: December 2014

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Friday, December 26, 2014. Poem of the Week: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I remember the boys and their open hands. High fives. Of farewell. I remember that the birches waved too,. The white jagged limbs turning away from incessant wildfires. The future wavered, unlike a question, unlike. A hand or headstone. The future moved and the fields already knew it. I remember the war of the alphabet, its ears sliced from its face. I. Know that language asks for blood. The morning’s torso into smoke. They slept in my ...

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Split This Rock: February 2015

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Friday, February 27, 2015. Poem of the Week: Roger Reeves. Self-Portrait as Vincent Van Gogh. In the Asylum at Arles. The moths in the orchard squeal. With each pass of the mistral wind. Yet the reapers and their scythes,. Out beyond the pear trees, slay wheat. In sure columns. Christ. Must have been made of shocks. Of wheat. When they lashed him,. Four bundles of fine yellow burst forth. From each welt. And the women,. Tarrying as they do now behind the swing. And chuff of the reapers' blades,. A fragra...

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Split This Rock: Poem of the Week: Aaron Kreuter

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Friday, May 15, 2015. Poem of the Week: Aaron Kreuter. Paddling the Nickel Tailings Near Sudbury. We put in at the edge of the tailings pond,. Our canoe loaded with gear and food. To take us on the four-day loop trip,. Our nylon tent and stainless steel pots. The river at first is like any other river. But not, a photo with the colours twisted,. Stunning, rich orange fluorescence,. Tailing off into the blackened valley bed. The slurry so thick it takes a dozen strokes. Before we learn how to move in it,.