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Title "Arts and Social Change" on top left; time and location of event below the title: "Wednesday, May 18, 6-8 PM At Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College"; panelist names below the event location: "with Ana "Rokafella" Garcia and Laura Alvarez" below; on top right, Bronx Council on the Arts and PEN America logos; below the logos, moderator Alejandro Heredia's headshot next to words "Moderated by Alejandro Heredia"; below Alejandro's headshot, headshot of panelists Ana "Rokafella" Garcia and Laura Alvarez; at the bottom, words "NYC Literary Action Coalition" in red rectangle

Arts and Social Change

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET
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It’s #WorldPoetryDay. Who are you reading?

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Annual World Poetry Day is celebrated today. Share Galal's new poem 'In My Silence Is My Death' written in Badr Prison:
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For #WorldPoetryDay, listen to “Spring Will Come” by Taciana Niadbaj of @pen_belarus in Belarusian with English subtitles. Poet Armen Ohanyan of #PENArmenia reads Niadbaj’s poem in Armenian.

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