Stepping Forward — 100,000 Poets for Change
Stepping Forward
100,000 Poets for Change
Sat, Sept. 25, 2021
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100TPC is an annual worldwide event begun in 2011 by Mark Rothenberg and Terri Carrion as a cultural effort toward building a world of peace, justice, and sustainability. Over 5,000 events have been held in the 10 years of its existence, including readings in Chicago annually by the Red Rover series (curated by Jennifer Karmin and Laura Goldstein) and twice by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade-Chicago. In July of that same year, 2011, poets representing 37 different international poetry festivals met in Medellin, Colombia, and formed the World Poetry Movement (WPM), an organization also dedicated to the poetic contribution to the fight for world peace, justice, and sustainability.
San Francisco poet laureate Jack Hirschman was one of the 37 founders of the WPM and was active in annual 100TPC events. Jack passed away in August of this year; his work is a testament to the struggle beyond resisting what is bad, but even more to a vision of what is possible and what is necessary to achieve that possibility. “Stepping Forward,” a poem read here by Jack Hirschman (https://www.youtube.com/
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