100 Thousand Poets for Change has organized over 5000 poetry, art, and music gatherings for the cause of Peace, Justice, and Sustainability across the globe in the last 10 years. Poets from many languages, cultures, geographical regions, ethnicities, creeds, beliefs, and religious affiliations have come together to lead and promote poetry readings, without any preconditions or censorship, where participants speak out for causes nearest their hearts. In the process, oppressions, exploitative practices, biases, and abuses of many kinds have been highlighted. There are distinct and often mortal consequences to regimes of tyranny and persecution; and there is a collective interest in striving toward the demanding ideal that 100 Thousand Poets for Change has set for itself in calling for Peace, Justice, Sustainability.
This year’s global event will take place the last weekend in September. This is an action time for poets. So far over 200 communities around the world have signed up for live and/or virtual events. Ron Kolm, Linda Kleinbub, and Phillip Giambri are honored to be hosting this year’s New York City event live at KGB Red Room on Friday September 24th from 7-9 PM and will be among the below list of readers. We look forward to sharing an important and wonderful night of poetry with you.
A record of this event will be preserved by Michael Rothenberg at Stanford University’s archives.
