By Debbie Allen and Patricia Thrushart, Cofounders, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA A museum just steps from the banks of the Ohio River, “Jordan” as it was known in coded slave spirituals. A library on the shores of Lake Erie, where passage to Canada brought a new life. The dairy barn of a farm […]

In the workshop PARH USA offers, we quote the Poetry Foundation’s editorial staff, which wrote, “Poetry is commanding enough to gather crowds in a city square and compact enough to demand attention on social media.” Believing, as we do, in the power of poetry to confront racism, bigotry, and hate, our goal with this blog

Poets Against Racism & Hate USA completes a year of growth and impact and expects much from the year ahead It’s a new year and that means everyone’s newsfeeds, social media pages, and Substack reads are filled with reviews of the prior year. Best movies, best restaurants, significant milestones—name the category and there’s undoubtedly a