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 […]

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA “History repeats itself.” We’ve all heard this adage, along with Winston Churchill’s warning that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Spanish philosopher George Santayana is usually given credit for another version of this aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA Poetry is having a moment. The genre often perceived as obtuse and elitist has been rescued from its ivory-towered prison and reintroduced to the world by a generation of poets as comfortable with slams as sonnets. Spoken word, blackout, performance, insta—these are the styles that