POWER OF POETRY
Poets at Food Banks . Several food banks have enlisted the help of poets to write about the important role that Food Banks, Commu- nity Gardens, Food Pantries and the like play in the community. The result: The Poets-in-Residence have written poems and/or produced videos of their poems, which have then been shared widely with Food Bank partners. For example, the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Food Bank featured poet Patti Ross at a key fundraising event (see Poetry at the Food Bank – Anne Arundel County Food Bank (aafood - bank.org) . Amplifying the Message. In the Spring of 2023, Poetry X Hun- ger was featured on a national Food Justice panel sponsored by No Kid Hungry/Share Our Strength and The Aspen Institute in New York City’s Historic Roosevelt Mansion.. The discussion centered on the use of the creative arts in food justice work. Other panelists at the well-attended session included a renowned fiber artist and an Em - my-winning videographer/documentarian. Poetry X Hunger used the microphone to call on national poetry organizations and governmen - tal agricultural agencies to support poetry-of-hunger programming in their grants. (The 90-minute program, Conversations on Food Jus- tice: Art and Food Justice - The Aspen Institute, is available online.) In the coming months, we hope to announce the outcome of a col - laboration between a musical composer and a Poetry X Hunger poet in the creation of a stringed instrument choral piece for young voic- es. We are also looking forward to the results of a partnership with a global anti-hunger group as it uses Poetry X Hunger poetry in Public Service Announcements that are widely aired in the US and around the world. continued on page 66
leaders and the United Nations, we created a website (www.Poet - ryXHunger.com) that showcases many powerful poems. All of the poems on the site are freely available for use. And that’s a key point — the poems are being used . Here are just a few examples of the work poetry is doing to support anti-hunger efforts such as World Food Day. Fundraisers. In partnership with The Poartry Project (https:// poartry.org/), we paired Poetry X Hunger poets with visual artists, and then held an online auction of the artwork. The result: In No - vember, 2022 we raised more than $5,000 for Feed the Children (www.feedthechildren.org/). Soon afterwards, we partnered with the Washington, DC-based anti-hunger group, Roots for Life (www. roots-for-life.org/about-us-2) to offer a poetry reading fundraiser — again, showcasing some of the amazing poets and their work online — and raised more than $1,000 for needed refrigeration systems — the largest fundraiser Roots for Life has held. We’re in the process of working with other anti-hunger groups to organize similar fundrais - ers that will, for example, support school gardens in Uganda. In Classrooms . Poetry X Hunger poems are being used in K-18 (elementary and high schools and colleges) to engage students in dis - cussions of food, agriculture, nutrition, hunger and the like. Pennsyl- vania State University’s Global Learning in Agriculture community continues to tap Poetry X Hunger ’s inventory of poems to develop teaching modules for teachers. Oregon State University Honor’s College has drawn on Poetry X Hunger’s bank of poems to offer a Colloquium focused on the poetry of hunger with students designing poetry-focused anti-hunger activities.
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