Check out Split This Rock, a progressive poetry collective with lots of events both online and in the DC area.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016 April 14-17 , 2016
The 5th annual Abortion Rights Poetry Contest is open for submissions – January 10, 2016 deadline.
On December 20 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the influential series, Sunday Kind of Love. A unique collaboration with Busboys and Poets, the series predates even Split This Rock!
In January we are proud to kick off a major series of events, Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016, a city-wide festival dedicated to the people of Iraq and those living everywhere that free expression is threatened. Arab and Iranian poets and translators will be reading and talking about the power of translation throughout the DC area.
Visit their website at http://www.splitthisrock.org/