Sylvia Jones is a writer, educator, and prison abolitionist. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She’s associate poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press and works part-time teaching creative writing and composition at Goucher College and The George Washington University. She also is reader for the journal, Ploughshares.
Melanie Figg (MFA, PCC) is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Trace (named one of the Best Inde Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews), and a poetry chapbook, Hurry, Love. She is currently working on a hybrid memoir. Melanie's poems, personal essays, and book reviews are published or forthcoming in dozens of literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Nimrod, The Rumpus, and the American Poetry Review. She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and others.
See more information about Poetry X Hunger Initiative (Artwork by Diane Wilbon Parks)
Larew launched Poetry X Hunger to rouse more poets in the fight to end hunger. The website includes more than 250 poems by poets from around the world. He co-edited the first-ever e-collection of such poems and recordings and issued it in 2021 (see the link to the collection on the website's front page).
Many of the poems have been used in classrooms, during anti-hunger meetings, as part of religious services, and in food bank newsletters.
Many of the poems have been used in classrooms, during anti-hunger meetings, as part of religious services, and in food bank newsletters.
Year: Ongoing
See more information about A radio interview of Larew.
This is a recording of Larew as featured poet on a radio program in California, USA.
October 2019 – Radio interview on Living Proof program, Outbeat Radio hosted by Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer, KRCB 91 FM, Santa Rose, CA
October 2019 – Radio interview on Living Proof program, Outbeat Radio hosted by Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer, KRCB 91 FM, Santa Rose, CA
Visiting Fellow, Hood College
See more information about Visiting Fellow, Hood CollegeYear: 2019
Details: Larew served as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow for a week at Hood College in 2019. Focus: Food security, poetry, sustainability, hunger.
Jenna Cipolloni is an independent Maryland-based writer and filmmaker.
Larew in Voices of Woodlawn Presentation, hosted by The Ragged Edge Poetry Series, Gettysburg, PA
During a Writing Residency at Historic Woodlawn Plantation Estate in Fairfax, Virginia, Larew invited four African American poets to join him in writing about the largely unknown community of 90 slaves who served 9 whites at Woodlawn in the 1800's. The resulting 45-minute program of powerful poetry and music has been presented widely as a prompt for deeper discussions about America's tragic history of slavery. The photograph was taken at Woodlawn. Larew is grateful to Historic Woodlawn and to The Inner Loop for the Residency.
Medium: Poetry
Year: 2019