All-Star Women Poets reading at Cornelia Street Cafe
100 Thousand Poets for Change
emcee & poet Maggie Balistreri
Larissa Shmailo, Elaine Equi, Rachel Hadas
Patricia Spears Jones, Trace Peterson
filmed by geo geller
All-Star Women Poets Read is part of the eighth annual global event, 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC), a nonprofit, grassroots organization which brings communities together for sustainability and peace. This year’s events involve nearly 2,000 individuals and organizations and include a special initiative among families and in classrooms, “Read a Poem to a Child,” to highlight the importance and vulnerability of children.
All poems read at All-Star Women Poets Read and 100TPC will be archived at Stanford University.
direct link to the playlist below
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