The article on Poetry X Hunger is live! You can read the story on the Food Tank website: 
https://foodtank.com/news/2021/04/poetry-x-hunger-initiative-brings-art-to-anti-hunger-fight/

Food Tank highlights hope and success in agriculture. Food Tank initiative features innovative ideas that are already working on the ground, in cities, in kitchens, in fields and in laboratories. These innovations need more attention, more research, and ultimately more funding to be replicated and scaled-up. ​

A wonderful article was posted about PoetryXHunger initiative on Quota website recently. The article was released in conjunction with World Poetry Day.
https://quota.media/world-poetry-day-poetry-x-hunger-grabs-the-attention-of-distracted-experts-politicians/  

Thank you for this feature!

UN Food Systems Summit has featured a wonderful poem by Dr. Namukolo: 
https://sdg2advocacyhub.org/news/poem-un-food-system-summit-2021

"I am your food system for you to transform" - A poem by Dr. Namukolo Covic in support of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.

Learn more here:
sdg2advocacyhub.org

Roger Thurow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shares a poem evoking the human face of domestic hunger — an issue that is too often forgotten in policy discussions:

https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/commentary-and-analysis/blogs/talking-back-hunger 

AaronR's poem is mentioned in the blog post. 

We want to thank the folks at The Capital Area Food Bank for providing AaronR with the (first of its kind) poet-in-residence opportunity, to our friends at Pennsylvania State University for hosting the GLAG21 Conference where you learned of AaronR's poem, and to our colleagues at UNFAO/LOW and Split This Rock for their ongoing support.  

Here's a recent post from a Washington, DC poetry initiative that includes a prominent mention of Poetry X Hunger:

Hiram Larew: the COVID Poetry & Art Project — DCTRENDING 

Honors College student at the Oregon State University highlights their Poetry X Hunger project: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLfG_pFn8zx/  

If ever you needed convincing that poetry can powerfully Speak Back to Hunger, then I'd really encourage you to watch this 2-minute video.

#GLAG21 - One Poem, One Community - YouTube

The video premiered yesterday during the Global Learning in Agriculture 2021 (GLAG21) Conference's Poetry Cafe -- all  hosted by good colleagues at Pennsylvania State University (PSU)  It presents, with captions, GLAG21's Poetry Contest winning poem, Hunger Pains,  by young poet, Tyler Cook.  

In the video, Tyler reads the first few lines of his poem and is then followed by several other poets and friends from Korea, Zimbabwe, Ireland, the US and Kenya as they read sections of his amazing poem.


The GLAG Conference is designed to provide K-18 teachers around the world with new and exciting insights and tools, like poetry, as they engage learners in discussions of agriculture, food, nutrition, hunger and related topics. 

For info on GLAG -- Global Learning in Agriculture Week | #GLAG21: Taking Action (psu.edu)

Congratulations to Tyler!  And kudos to PSU's Dr. Daniel Foster, Dr. Melanie Miller Foster and Mr. Carson LeTot for creating the space for poetry to shine.

Voices of Woodlawn, a powerful poetry program about America's slaveholding past, will be presented three times during February's Black History Month.  

See the flyer for details.  

Here's the registration link for the session this Friday, Feb 5 at 7 pm East Coast Time, US.  Once registered, you'll receive the zoom link.  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvd--hqD8qH9wqroozp6AkVVxIPg6jxfar