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Human Rights Readings!
- Founding Chapter
- Austin
- Chicago
- Dallas/Ft. Worth
- Houston
- London Canada
- Port St. Lucie
- Prague
- Romania
Are you hosting a Poets for Human Rights Reading? Let us know so we can post it for our friends to see. Here's a sampling of poetry's finest!
founding chapter Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Stazja McFadyen
Date: December
10th, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location:
The program will include featured poet Larry Jaffe, recognized internationally for human rights poetic activism. Also reading will be Renee Duke, Venus Jones, Alicyn Lopez, Stazja McFadyen and Wayne S. Williams.
Guest Speaker Rodrick Colbert will do a presentation on Amnesty International. Mr. Colbert represents the AI Tampa Bay group 240.
Winners will be announced for the Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest and the Alexander Youth Award Poetry Contest, sponsored by Poets for Human Rights.
Anita McAndrews
(1924-2005) was a poet, writer, award-winning investigative journalist
and prolific artist. She lived in
Alex Popoff
(1978-2002) was a young man whose life was cut short by complications
due to cystic fibrosis, his impact on people reached beyond his
immediate sphere of influence. Deeply concerned by the capacity of
humans to harm one another, he signed the 9/11 Memorial in
Both contests have drawn entries from
across the
The program will close with a reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Chicago Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Francesco Levato
Date: December
9th, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Acme Art Works, 1741 North Western Avenue, Chicago, IL
On December 10, 1948, in response to the tragedies of World War II the
United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Fifty
eight years later, on May 18, 2006, a resolution was submitted in support of
a national day and week honoring human rights—this, fifty eight years late
and to the same congress that legalized torture and immunized torturers
against prosecution for war crimes. Where our congress refuses to speak out
against the injustice committed in our name we must.
Speak out against injustice with Poets for Human Rights: an evening of social engagement featuring the poetry of Robert Archambeau, Emily Calvo, Nina Corwin, Teneice Delgado, Richard Fammerée, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Chris Gallinari, Francesco Levato, Christina E. Lovin, Mikki Mendelsohn, Brent Mesick, Erika Mikkalo, Simone Muench, Charlie Newman, Kristy Odelius, Steven Schroeder, Rachel Webster (and more to come). The Chicago Poets for Human Rights reading will be featured as a podcast on Rattapallax.com.
houston Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Ken Jones
Date: Sun Dec. 10, 2006 at
Time: 8 p.m
A reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promulgated by the United Nations. Relevant guest speakers, and poets reading related poems. Program will be videoed for cable broadcast.
Poets include: Carolyn Adams, Mike Alexander, Kristi Beer, Tina Cardona, Robert Clark, Kim Cotton, Maryke Cramerus, John Gorman, Lisa Grable, Samantha Levy, Juilo and Carlos Marquina, Jim Milkereit, Tamara Nicholl, Maraia Palacios, Dave Parsons, Daniel Rice, Paul Smith, Brian Swain, Martha Margaret Tamez, Tryfon Tolides, Luis and Adiana Vasquez, Randy Watson, Chuck Wemple
austin Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Peggy Zuleika Lynch
Date: Sunday, December 10
Location: Barnes & Noble Booksellers Westlake, 71 S. Capital of Texas Hwy, Austin, Texas. Austin
Our coordinator Peggy Zuleika Lynch, is a nominee for the next Texas Poet Laureate. A distinguished list of guest poets include Mary Agnes Taylor, Ruth Richardson, Dorothy Turner, Jo Virgil, Dillon McKinsey, Carlyn Luke Reding, Glynn Irby, Wendy Woodruff, Thom the World Poet, Barbara Carr, Dr. Lisa Kahn, Alan Birkelbach, Faye Leeper, Brack Miller, Herman Nelson, Ruth Savage, Mary Houston, Nancy Kenney Connelly, Dr. Brandy Strahan, George Klawitter, Tecia Skelding, Dr. Marilyn Konechak, Ginger Pierson, Dr. Marvin Kimbrough, Kaye Abikhaled, Dr. Charlotte Renk, Tommie Ortega, Deltina Haye, Courtney O’Banion, Joyce Pounds Hardy-McDonald, Charlie Johanneson, Brian Emmett Swain, Chloe Brown, Dr. Jim Dimmett, Wendy Dimmett, Angela Villareal Ratliff, Steve Vera, J. Paul Holcomb, Dr. Dave Oliphant, Patricia Fiske, Gary Martt, Dr. Byron Kocen, Deb Akers, Ruthan Mezaros
port st. lucie Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Michael Grover
Date: Sunday, December 10
Location: Exodus Coffee & Culture, 1352 SW Bayshore Drive, Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
Scheduled to appear will be Michael Grover, Richard Spisak, Vibe One of
Under No Order, Hope Freid, Rachel, Darcy VonOhlen, Mariama Diamond Barbie,
Steve Berry and George MacAurthur. Michelle Lucey will be performing music.
london, canada Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Penn Kemp
Date: Sunday December
10th, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM
Location:
525 Canterbury Road,
London.
I invite you to 525 Canterbury on Sunday evening, December 10th for an evening of readings by various local poets in honor of International Human Rights Day. We will join our voices together in poems that acknowledge this day as we make the journey from this darkest time of the year to the returning Light. We will also celebrate our growing awareness of the Light within and our desire for Peace, personally and on the Planet. We look forward to sharing this gathering of poetry, spirit and hope with you at this sacred time of the year. Come read your favorite poem...
Many of the poets who read at our gathering for Human Rights on Dec. 10, 2005, will be reading again this year including: Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy, Beryl Baigent, Andreas Gripp, Mary Hamilton, Robyn Israel, Susannah Joyce, Daniel Kolos, Penn Kemp, Gavin Stairs, Hiedi Vamvalis. Katerina Fretwell's poem will be read in absentia.
A half hour interview with Penn Kemp about the reading and poem for peace will be played on 1069 FM, Radio Fanshawe, London Canada, on Sunday December 10 at 5 pm EST. Hear it live. Click on the big X; then click on "Listen Live".
romania astro-Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Date: December 2nd 2006
Time: N/A
Location:
Bucegi Mountain, Romania
On December 2nd, 2006, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM
organized at Vanatorul Complex in the Bucegi Mountains, in advance for the
International Human Rights Day, the reading below (coordinated by Andrei
Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore, and accompanied by Dan Mitrut’s
astrofolk
music):
Contributing poets - Valentin Grigore, President of the Romanian Society for
Meteors and Astronomy Cristina Slovineanu Ion Moraru Doina Chilargi Dan
Mitrut Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator Zigmund Tauberg Dominic Diamant
Iulian Olaru Alexandrina Zuza Florian Saioc Andreea Nanciu Andrei Dorian
Gheorghe
Editor's Note: To read a sample of the poem created and read by these incredible Romanian poets click here.
dallas/ft. worth Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Hippie Rick
Date: Sunday December
10th, 2006
Time: Spontaneous
Location: Streets of Dallas/Fort Worth
Hippie Rick Rumpel will cover the Dallas/Fort Worth region with spontaneous street readings throughout the day.
prague Poets for Human Rights
Coordinator: Jana Jakesova
Date: Sunday December
10th, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: U BOZIHO MLYNA, Lublanska 50, Praha 2, Czech Republic
Poetry reading on social topics and human rights to enhance people awarness about their responsibility to do something for others, and by voice of poets to express a disagreement with violation of it. Promotion of Universal Declaration of Human Rights by printed Declaration and a to inform a public about their right of human and enhance their tolerance to each other also in a enviromet to not support discrimination or unjustice around. Mic is open for all interested poets from three main Czech poetics servers and interested public can contribute as well.