Comments on: Split This Rock Poetry Festival – Good Cause Or Propaganda? http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/split-this-rock-poetry-festival-good-cause-or-propaganda/01/22/2008/ Commentary On 21st Century Poetics Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:13:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sarah Browning http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/split-this-rock-poetry-festival-good-cause-or-propaganda/01/22/2008/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Sarah Browning Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:25:18 +0000 http://worldclasspoetryblog.com/split-this-rock-poetry-festival-good-cause-or-propaganda/01/22/2008/#comment-131 Thanks for your thoughtful comments on Split This Rock. Just to let you and your readers know, the registration fee pays only a fraction of the cost of bringing the featured poets to town and putting them up and feeding them while they're here. We've been busting our humps for over a year to raise the rest of the funds necessary to put together an event of this scope. We're also offering lots of scholarships, so if folks can't afford the $75, I hope they'll apply. Guidelines are on the site at www.splitthisrock.org, under Registration. As to ideology, we are a big tent. All the featured poets have agreed to come (and waive their fee) because they oppose this unjust war and believe we need to end it now and reinvest in our own communities here at home. I'm certain that there are a number of positions among all of us - featured poets and organizers alike - about the issue you raise: if war is ever justified and under what conditions. We have not taken a poll. We chose poets to feature because their poems engage the world in dynamic and important ways. They move us, they make us think. As all poetry should. Thanks again and hope to see you in March! Thanks for your thoughtful comments on Split This Rock. Just to let you and your readers know, the registration fee pays only a fraction of the cost of bringing the featured poets to town and putting them up and feeding them while they’re here. We’ve been busting our humps for over a year to raise the rest of the funds necessary to put together an event of this scope. We’re also offering lots of scholarships, so if folks can’t afford the $75, I hope they’ll apply. Guidelines are on the site at http://www.splitthisrock.org, under Registration.

As to ideology, we are a big tent. All the featured poets have agreed to come (and waive their fee) because they oppose this unjust war and believe we need to end it now and reinvest in our own communities here at home. I’m certain that there are a number of positions among all of us – featured poets and organizers alike – about the issue you raise: if war is ever justified and under what conditions. We have not taken a poll. We chose poets to feature because their poems engage the world in dynamic and important ways. They move us, they make us think. As all poetry should.

Thanks again and hope to see you in March!

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