September 24, 2024 -- Dr. Carolivia Herron, host of the Epic City Program on WOWD-94.3 FM, and Hiram Larew visited recently for 60 minutes about all things poetry, including Poetry X Hunger, mud, Voices of Woodlawn, windy hair and Ireland.  
Find the link to the program here -- Radio Interview (hiramlarewpoetry.com)
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August 15, 2024 -- Poetry X Hunger proudly announced that it has awarded a grant to New York City's West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH; Home - West Side Campaign Against Hunger (wscah.org)).   WSCAH will use the grant to sponsor a poetry competition for young people, especially those who may have experienced food insecurity.  Winning poems will be showcased at WSCAH's ROCKS THE BLOCK annual block party and will be published on the Poetry X Hunger website. 

For more information about grants from Poetry X Hunger, visit -- Recipients and Donors - Poetry X Hunger

For more information on making donations to Poetry X Hunger, visit --Poetry X Hunger | Chesapeake Charities

To contact Poetry X Hunger, email [email protected]

Poetry X Hunger is a component fund of Chesapeake Charities, In, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered with the State of Maryland.  Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.  Documents and information submitted to the State of Mayland under the Maryland Charitable Solicitation Act are available form the Office of the Secretary of State for the cost of copying and postage. 

​August 1, 2024 -- Poetry X Hunger proudly announces its first grant to a creative arts organization that is fighting hunger.
 
New Jersey’s East Coast Arts & Literature League (ECALL; ecallonline.org ) will use the support to hold a poetry competition with a hunger theme.  In addition to raising awareness about hunger issues, ECALL will use the competition to raise donations for the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.  Winning poems will be published on the Poetry X Hunger website.
 
In accepting the grant, ECALL President Tara Tomczyk described the importance of the grant: “All of us here at ECALL are thrilled to be working with Poetry X Hunger and Chesapeake Charities to host our first-ever poetry contest. As a very new nonprofit organization supporting artists in all fields, we’re excited to provide an opportunity for our members and all poets to make a difference fighting hunger while also making art. We’re grateful for the help, and can’t wait to read the poems!”
 
Founder of Poetry X Hunger, Hiram Larew is just as enthusiastic: “Our work with ECALL is another exciting example of poetry’s power to fight hunger.  Congratulations to ECALL on receiving this first Poetry X Hunger-funded grant.”  
 
For more information on the grant requesting process -- Recipients and Donors - Poetry X Hunger
 
For more information on making a donation to Poetry X Hunger -- Poetry X Hunger | Chesapeake Charities
 
To contact Poetry X Hunger, email [email protected]
 
Poetry X Hunger is a component fund of Chesapeake Charities, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered with the State of Maryland. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Documents and information submitted to the State of Maryland under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act are available from the Office of the Secretary of State for the cost of copying and postage.

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Here's a link to another article about Poetry X Hunger -- this one in the Summer 2024 issue of Outlook by the Bay magazine.  Thanks to Editor and Publisher Jason Whong and to Managing Editor Catherine White for this coverage.  

​Summer 2024 · OutLook by the Bay

July 26, 2024 -- Widely respected poet Henry Crawford (pictured below) blogged about Poetry X Hunger on his Substack site.  Yes!  Thanks to him for helping to raise awareness about poetry that is fighting hunger.   Here's the link to his blog -- 
(7) Poetry of Hunger - by Henry Crawford - Everyday Poet (substack.com)

And, here's the link to Henry's poetry website -- ​Home (henrycrawfordpoetry.com)

A panel of creatives met by Zoom on June 12, 2024 to discuss the future of the Arts in addressing food justice.  Lots of good ideas about a very timely topic!

Organized by Aly Maier Lokuta of The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the panel was emceed by Triada Stampas of Fulfill and included Hiram Larew of Poetry X Hunger.  Other panelists were poet Elisabet Velaquez, Lindsay Erben of the Art Institute of Middlesex County (New Jersey, USA), and Carolina Moratti of Cooking Outside the Box.

Here's the 60-min recording of the Cultivating Advocacy: Leveraging the Arts for Food Justice panel discussion -- Cultivating Advocacy: Leveraging the Arts for Food Justice (youtube.com)

Editor Emily Ferrara has published a pretty amazing Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Pendemics Journal from the Global Quarantine Museum.  All of the poems and art included in the issue are focused on fighting hunger.

Here's the link to the HUNGER issue -- https://online.fliphtml5.com/ppypf/orhr/

​Here's the link to the Journal -- Covid-19 | The Global Quarantine Museum (erferrara.wixsite.com)

And here's to The Creative Arts that work to prevent and end Hunger.  Yes!

Image is of Dr. Jayne Shatz's Empty Bowl.  

Wow!  The commercial recording of Pitch In has been released.  This remarkable 12.5 -minute musical composition by James Lee III was commissioned by Indiana University.  

Mr. Lee chose the Poetry X Hunger poem, Pitch In, by Sylvia Dianne Beverly aka Ladi Di (Maryland, USA) for the lyric.  

Here's what Mr. Lee says about his composition.  

"I very much enjoyed composing this new work "Pitch In" for youth chorus and string quartet. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Josephine Lee, Uniting Voices, the Pacifica Quartet, and setting the texts of Sylvia Dianne Beverly for such an important topic as hunger and food insecurity." ---James Lee III

Here's the link to the performance -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87SkUjGG93o

And here's the link to the text of the poem -- Pitch In by Ladi Di - Poetry X Hunger

Thanks to the creative forces that Mr. Lee and Ladi Di represent.  And, to poetry and music that fights hunger.