By Debbie Allen, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA For years, a would-be poet spent untold hours scribbling poetic jottings in her ever-present notebook, drafting and revising and polishing poem after poem, reading poetry, learning about poetry, thinking about poetry, seeing poetry in nearly every experience she had. And doing all this in solitary […]

By Debbie Allen and Patricia Thrushart, Cofounders, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA PARH USA is thrilled to collaborate with the Ohio Poetry Association (OPA) and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to include poetry in the celebration of International Underground Railroad Month. The Underground Railroad was the network used through the mid-19th century by

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA On June 13, 2020, the Venango County Black Lives Matter “Enough is Enough Rally” in Franklin, PA, drew what the Explore Venango online news source deemed a “large crowd” of area residents reacting to the death of George Floyd and protesting systemic racism. Like other