SPLIT THIS ROCK INC

Split This Rock is the only national organization with a mission to integrate poetry and social justice. We materially support poets who are often excluded and underrepresented in the literary landscape, particularly those who are BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled or chronically ill, and/or working class. With strong commitments to racial, gender, economic, and disability justice, we work to expand the horizons of inclusion and assert the transformative power of language to bear witness to injustice and provoke social change. We believe poetry acts as an agent for change by revealing the diversity and complexity of human experience, reflecting on daily lives and struggles, considering personal and social responsibility, and envisioning a better world.

The name "Split This Rock" is borrowed from a line in ?Big Buddy,? a poem by Langston Hughes.

Don?t you hear this hammer ring?
I?m gonna split this rock
And split it wide!
When I split this rock,
Stand by my side.

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