The poems in this section were submitted to and judged as winners in the 2018 World Food Day Competition. Held in conjunction with World Food Day (October 16 of each year), the Competition was sponsored by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization's North America Liaison Office in partnership with Poetry X Hunger. Themed on the 2018 WFD focus of eliminating hunger by the year 2025, many of the poems that were submitted by Washington, DC area poets are featured on Facebook at Poetry X Hunger. And, many of these powerful poems have since been used in classrooms, in newsletters, at meetings and on blogsites to draw needed attention to hunger - its causes and consequences.
Hunger Pains by Aaron R. |
Hunger # 1 by Jesse Alexander |
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In a world where we are concerned about the economy and marketing numbers
How can we have people starving and dealing with hunger? We’re too far developed as a nation to be faced with this situation So we have a plan and 2030 is our destination READ MORE |
hides with you after 1am (btwn guard shifts)
trying to doze in backseat of your mom’s old blue CR-V ( good sleeping car, she said, rear seats fold down, her goodbye factory hands pressing your cheeks ) READ MORE |
Shutter by Teri Cross DavisAnd if you could go back, you would
You would pick the child up, gingerly like a newborn cradling her large head, thin-skinned body, jutting bones, And no mother you, but you would have hushed her READ MORE |
Ode to the Body in the Duman River - Meg Eden |
The Voice of Hunger by Diane W. Parks |
Hunger Game by Henry Crawford |
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Thoughts tremble and bend so far inward,
Shoulders become cups, neck lines, exaggerated bones; chests turn inwardly to reconcile the pain of hunger. Hope becomes a wall, a place to write the wrongs. READ MORE |
Into the spaces made by
words I go when famished admiring the two tall towers that end in ‘full’ or the way READ MORE |
AUTHORS
Aaron R. |
Jesse Alexander |
Aaron R is the winner of FAO World Hunger Poetry Competition and author of Poetically Correct Volume 1. Aaron R also produces, directs, and edits his own poem videos. For more visit aaronRpoems.com
Henry Crawford
Henry Crawford is a poet living and writing in the Washington, DC area. His work has appeared in several journals and online publications including Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Folio, Borderline Press and The Offbeat. His first collection of poetry, American Software, was released in May of 2017 by WordTech Communications through its imprint, CW Books. http://henrycrawfordpoetry.com/
Teri Cross Davis
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of Haint (Gival Press, 2016), winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is a Cave Canem fellow and works as the poetry coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. She lives in Maryland.
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Jesse Alexander is a Apprentice Griot, Perpetual Abecedarian, ol' Bell Head, wonderer, Hacker, Ham, and Window Through Which The "I Am" Shines. A 17 year veteran of Bell Labs, Jesse holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering. http://www.eyepoet.net
* Instagram, Twitter: @scipoet * http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessealexander Meg Eden
Meg Eden's work is published or forthcoming in magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO and CV2. She teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. She has five poetry chapbooks, and her novel "Post-High School Reality Quest" is published with California Coldblood, an imprint of Rare Bird Books. Find her online at www.megedenbooks.com or on Twitter at @ConfusedNarwhal.
Diane W. Parks
A visual, center-line poet,who has published two collections of poetry. Diane lives in Prince George's County. https://vocalexpressions.blogspot.com/2018/03/interview-with-diane-wilbon-parks.html
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