Power through Poetry: Voices to End Hunger

This event will showcase powerful poems by poets as they demonstrate the role that poetry is playing in speaking back to hunger. We’ll also hear from several food systems and social justice leaders who will briefly share insights about the heart-grabbing and mind-changing difference that poetry plays – or could play – in their efforts. The poems and commentaries will be followed by Q&A among the audience and panellists. Attendees will leave the event having heard, seen and felt – having learned – how poetry can contribute to strategies to fight hunger and food insecurity.

This event is hosted by the Food Studies Program at The New School in New York and the PoetryXHunger initiative. It is part of the Food Studies Program’s “Food, Art, and Social Justice” 2022-23 event series.