Split This Rock 10th Anniversary
Master Class Series
Tim Seibles
January 29 | 6-9 pm
But somebody should
hold a note for the Earth,
a few words for whatever being
human could mean
beneath the forgotten sky:
some day one night,
when the city lights go out for good,
you won't believe how many stars
--"Faith" by Tim Seibles
In celebration of Split This Rock's 10th Anniversary this year and to raise funds for the organization's essential work, Split This Rock’s Board of Directors is hosting an exciting series of writing classes featuring some of the most celebrated and inspiring poets in the Split This Rock family. Classes are open to writers of all levels of experience and led by poets who have featured at past Split This Rock festivals. The first of these writing experiences, facilitated by National Book Award Finalist and Split This Rock Board Member Danez Smith, was a dynamic evening of writing and community.
We are thrilled to announce that Tim Seibles, National Book Award finalist and Poet Laureate of Virginia, has generously agreed to lead the second class in the series for the first 20 individuals who donate $100 to Split This Rock this January.
Split This Rock's 10th Anniversary Master Class with by Tim Seibles will be held in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 29, 2018, 6-9pm. You may wish to attend the class yourself, donate this experience to someone as a gift, or donate it back to a youth poet or someone within the Split This Rock community who would not be able to attend otherwise. Either way, you will be supporting the overall work of Split This Rock and an evening of great writing and learning together with one of our poetry superstars.
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Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1955. Currently the Poet Laureate of Virginia, he is the author of several books of poems including Fast Animal, a finalist for the National Book Award, and, most recently, One Turn Around the Sun, both from Etruscan Press. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts fellow and has been a writing fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts. Seibles also received an Open Voice Award from the 63rd Street Y in New York City. His work has been featured in anthologies such as Manthology, Black Nature, Seriously Funny, The Autumn House Anthology of American Poetry, So Much Things to Say, and Best American Poetry 2010. He has been a workshop leader for the Cave Canem Writers Retreat and for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. His home is in Norfolk, VA where, as Professor of English, he teaches in Old Dominion University's English Department and MFA in writing program. Seibles was a featured poet at Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2014.
Visit Split This Rock's website to learn more about its work or read other poems by Tim Seibles.
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ABOUT SPLIT THIS ROCK
Founded in March 2008, Split This Rock is a national non-profit, based in DC, that cultivates, teaches, and celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes change.
Split This Rock programs include readings, open mics, workshops, poetry contests, awards, an online social justice poetry database, a Poem of the Week series, youth slam festivals, school-based activities, a youth writers’ guild, campaigns to integrate poetry into movements for social change, and the award-winning DC Youth Slam Team. Our cornerstone program, Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, is a unique biennial event featuring three days of readings, workshops, discussions, youth voices & activism. Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018 (April 19-21) will celebrate Split This Rock's 10th anniversary.
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