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When I sat down to develop the lesson plan for the summer/after school program, it was essential for me to create opportunities for them to express aloud individually and collectively, with confidence. In last week’s session each student affirmed themselves with an “I AM” statement and contributed it to a collective affirmation poem.
The students are 🔥🔥🔥 and I’m literally overjoyed.
Posted withregram • the_diatribe Summer Programming with kydsaidit looks like: beginning the day with the class’ affirmations poem each students contributed to the first week.
Follow along and repeat each phrase with our students to get a piece of this affirmative love!!!! #curethroughcommunity
In an effort to combat the inequities around distance learning and ease the burden on our educators,our organization has released FREE downloadable content that can be used in person or during distance learning.
That content can be found using the link in our bio!
On December 19th from 2-3:30pm we will be facilitating a free learning session, poetry reading, and dialogue about "the state of the arts" where we talk about the Past, Present, and Future state of our organization.
If you would like to attend this free virtual event, please email Info@TheDiatribe.org for the link.
Please, spread the word!
This programing was made possible by: Heart of West Michigan United Way, Grand Rapids Community Foundation (Youth Action Committee), Meijer, and Michigan Humanities.
Art by: @solasink_ (<--MUST FOLLOW!)
#CureThroughCommunity
Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, you name it! We want you to write it! Today's prompt is to write about your favorite food! If you have trouble finding inspiration, try writing as if you're talking to someone who has NEVER had, or heard of, the dish that you're writing about!
Tag our page and use our hashtags to get a shout out in our IG story! Let's #UniteThroughDiatribe and find a #CureThroughCommunity ♡
Helping The Diatribe #CureThroughCommunity is... Mariah, who you can find at @cartographiesofmariah!
We have #poets on poets on poets coming at you with our Mask-erade Reading April 23 at 7 p.m. (which, conveniently, is part of the event name. Psssst... you can invite your friends 👀). We'll see you there!
If you can't make the reading but want to support the work, find us at the link in our bio!
We also have some prizes for a lucky winner that you'll be entered in by donating or by participating in the daily writing prompts - swipe for today’s!
Summer Programming with @kydsaidit looks like: beginning the day with the class’ affirmations poem each students contributed to the first week.
Follow along and repeat each phrase with our students to get a piece of this affirmative love!!!! #CureThroughCommunity
We will be sharing quotes from our fave poets throughout the month! Keep your eyes peeled for poets you should check out! Swipe for the prompt of the day & #UniteThroughDiatribe to find a #CureThroughCommunity ✨
Happy World Health Day! Our organization has changed so much in the last year, and at the heart of every decision we’ve made was our commitment to the health and wellness of our community. We stopped teaching (70-80% of our bread&butter) in-person courses, and went into OT to create authentic content that addresses a major concern for all people, especially youth, in pandemic living: mental health. That content is STILL free & available to anyone, especially educators who are looking to uplift their students. Link in our bio to check it out! We’ve put gift cards in the hands of families who need it most. We’ve done so much work to unveil a major project coming up, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg for us. On this day, we celebrate the health of our community, and look to the future for brighter days to come! Swipe to see the prompt of the day & #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity ✨
We love working with the students at Godwin! This is a pic of a student in our Writing to Right Wrongs course, led by none other than our educational director @gleasonrising 😍😍 Swipe for the 3rd prompt of this month! If you’re not feeling so inspired to write today, but still want to support us during #NationalPoetryMonth use the link in our bio to donate to our organization! Be the #curethroughcommunity 🙌🏽
Happy birthday to the late & great Maya Angelou. This day marks a day of rest for our team as we celebrate a brilliant mind. Swipe to see the 5th prompt of #NationalPoetryMonth! Tag us in your stories & posts to enter to win dope prizes at the end of this month. Donate at least $30 all month long to enter without posting a poem! Let’s #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨#UniteThroughDiatribe
The first poet ever on the cover of Vogue! ✨✨✨We stan. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽Swipe for the prompt of the day, and if you can’t scope out an article, why not write about @amandascgorman?? If you aren’t feeling inspired today but still want to enter to win incredible prizes- donate to our organization today! Link in bio #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙌🏽
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩When we tell y'all about what we've been up to on Dec 19th, REMEMBER: this is where the magic happens every week!
How it started-->how it's going in our office!! The day-to-day for us is lived to the fullest in this space. 🥰 We are so grateful to everyone who has made this little slice of creative heaven possible!
#curethroughcommunity
Help send Nigella to Spellman College! Link in bio✨ (Swipe to see the prompt of the day & the prizes involved in our challenge) At the heart of everything we do in this organization is our students! This dynamic youth reached out to ask if we could share her college fund, so OF COURSE, we are doing just that! A snippet from the GoFundMe page: “My goal is to earn my bachelor's degree and utilize it to acquire a career that involves helping people and changing the world in order for every minority to have better access to their rights. I never thought I would get accepted into a historically black college/university. So, my acceptance to Spelman came as a surprise. If I could actually attend, it would be better than a dream come true!” Help send this brilliant young black woman to college, y’all! Over the years we have worked with her, we have watched her grow into such a force to be reckoned with. We hope you’ll support her in anyway you can! Link to her fund in our bio. #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨
The Mask-erade Reading is coming up! Have you RSVP'ed yet? If not, head on over to our Facebook page, click "Going," and invite your friends so you can talk about all the KICK BUTT #POETRY you heard after!
The reading features a few of #TheDiatribe's students, including Naiara here! Keep up with us on social media over the next few days to stay updated on the other performers and more #PoetryMonth prompts! Swipe for today’s!
#CureThroughCommunity
Yay Nigella!!
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Help send Nigella to Spellman College! Link in bio✨ (Swipe to see the prompt of the day & the prizes involved in our challenge) At the heart of everything we do in this organization is our students! This dynamic youth reached out to ask if we could share her college fund, so OF COURSE, we are doing just that! A snippet from the GoFundMe page: “My goal is to earn my bachelor's degree and utilize it to acquire a career that involves helping people and changing the world in order for every minority to have better access to their rights. I never thought I would get accepted into a historically black college/university. So, my acceptance to Spelman came as a surprise. If I could actually attend, it would be better than a dream come true!” Help send this brilliant young black woman to college, y’all! Over the years we have worked with her, we have watched her grow into such a force to be reckoned with. We hope you’ll support her in anyway you can! Link to her fund in our bio. #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨
The Heart of West Michigan United Way @heartofwestmichigan gave us support, ensuring our diverse organization could survive, so of course we poured that support BACK into the talented and diverse creatives around us that help make our programing/organization what it is. Part of that includes getting our dynamic team headshots by local photographers! Check out our page for more of these shots as they're developed, and to get a little insight into the dynamic members of our team, as well as local talented photographers
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Peep these 🔥🔥 headshots of our Executive Director, Marcel 'Fable' Price!
About the photographer of these delightful shots- pictured 3rd: Alfield Reeves ( @alfieldreevesphotography )is a self-taught published photographer residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is originally from Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. He picked up photography during his sophomore year at Western Michigan University. He specializes in editorial, wedding, event and portrait photography. He’s known for his fashion editorial and black & white work. His work is featured in online platforms and magazines like Vogue Italia, SaveArtSpace, Burlington, NowThis, Blavity, and CRWN Magazine.
#CureThroughCommunity
TONIGHT!! 🎉🎉🎉 Event link & donate link in our bio.
We are having our annual April Fun'raiser this evening, where we'll have Poets, on Poets, on Poets & our feature is @natashatmiller ! While we have been posting about how excited we are for that event, we want to zoom our focus as to why: our STUDENTS! When we ask for donations, this is why. At the heart of everything we do is our youth- those who will go forward to change tomorrow. We are not just looking for more funding to help our organization grow, we are asking for more funding so we can increase our reach to those who might not even know they are poets yet. This Fun'raiser event happens every April so we can fund our Summer Programming & ensure our students are able to attend FOR FREE! Help us reach more extraordinary youth today- donate to our organization (link in bio) #unitethroughdiatribe to find a #CureThroughCommunity 🔥
To our students: It's been an incredible academic year with you.
Thank you for interacting with us in your classrooms and for participating safely and enthusiastically. You've had an unimaginably difficult year and you still managed to push through. Be proud of what you've accomplished.
Along with thanking our students, we want to thank the people who have been able to donate to our cause. Without you, we wouldn't be able to meet our students during times like these and shake up the school day in an invigorating way.
Moving forward, we're excited to see everyone who has signed up for summer programming! Thank you for being with us and continuing to #CureThroughCommunity.
Over the next five days we’ll tell you all about the new sex education program: What? Why? Who? Why? & When? If you want to get involved now- link to donate in bio & our Venmo is @the-diatribe ❤️ Help us #CureThroughCommunity & #UniteThroughDiatribe ✨✨
Thanks to our Writing to Right Wrongs partner, The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, students are encouraged to enter a #PoetryCompetition at the end of the WTRW program! ⠀
Outside the presence of a global pandemic, winning poets would read their work at the Fair Housing Center's annual fundraiser and receive a stipend. This year, the readings won't be taking place, but two first-place winners will receive $200 and three runners-up will receive $50! ⠀
We're dedicated to teaching students that poetry is not only a tool for education and self-discovery, but is also an art form worth funding. Thank you to The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan for helping us #CureThroughCommunity and to everyone who donates to help us do this work!⠀
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Image by @QuinnKPhoto
Over the next five days we’ll tell you all about the sex education program: What? Why? Who? Why? & When? If you want to get involved now- link to donate in bio & our Venmo is @the-diatribe ❤️ Help us #CureThroughCommunity & #UniteThroughDiatribe ✨✨
#AboutLastNight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Woohoo!!! We did it!! Thank you to everyone who was sharing space with us, virtually & in person! Thank you to @newhollandbrew for hosting us! Huge thanks to everyone who donated, our organization wouldn’t be here without you! Those of you who might have missed things, head to our Facebook page to check out the recording, so you can get rid of your FOMO- check the last slide for our prompt of the day & #UniteThroughDiatribe to find a #CureThroughCommunity
These 3 are the gracious hosts of West Michigan’s most super exclusive event happening on April 23rd!! (Swipe for the prompt of the day!) We got Poets on Poets on Poets (Ft. @natashatmiller ), hosted by @fableistruth @gleasonrising & the poet laureate of Grand Rapids: @kydsaidit and we couldn’t be more excited if we tried!! Since we pride ourselves on being majorly inclusive as an organization, you know we couldn’t stop at giving our valued guests the benefit of a private poetry performance- so we’re bringing it to you LIVE! From our Facebook page as well as @newhollandbrew on April 23rd you can catch the reading of a lifetime!! If you are bummed you aren’t invited to the exclusive event, why not cheer yourself up by entering to win some dope prizes??!! Tag us in a post of you reading a poem inspired by any of our prompts this month & you might just #stayhome with a W! Don’t feel like writing? Got weak wrists?? Tap the link in our bio to donate to our organization any day this month & you can still enter to win! #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity ✨
It's National Poetry Month!
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Happy birthday to the late & great Maya Angelou. This day marks a day of rest for our team as we celebrate a brilliant mind. Swipe to see the 5th prompt of #NationalPoetryMonth! Tag us in your stories & posts to enter to win dope prizes at the end of this month. Donate at least $30 all month long to enter without posting a poem! Let’s #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨#UniteThroughDiatribe
Happening NOW on YouTube. You need to tune into the_diatribe NOW!
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We hope you join us TOMORROW for The Diatribe Free Education Program event starting at 2pm!
For all of you that have been missing live events, our aim is that this will bring you some much needed light! The event will also be informative & inspiring, just like anything our fantastic team comes together to accomplish!
Tell ya friends, especially those in education, or those who might want to see INCREDIBLE local talent performing live! 🥰🤩
Link to event in bio- livestream starts at 2PM. Email us for more info!
#curethroughcommunity
Get involved and #CureThroughCommunity!
Here are two ways to begin or continue your experience with The Diatribe:
1. For those who live in or have connections to #The49507, are available Thursday or Friday of this or next week, and want to share how you'd like to see the 49507 grow, comment below or DM us! We may have an opportunity for you!
2. If you're looking for something to do this summer, sign up for our summer programming with @kydsaidit! This is where you can get one-on-one feedback on your poetry and meet other students with similar interests. Sign up and find more information at the summer programming url in our linktree!
💥💥We've released new downloadable content that's completely FREE teachers to use in the classroom or in distance learning! 💥💥
Poetry Empowered: Mental Health and Wellness is a ten session course for middle schoolers that uses poetry videos, interactive student journals, and unique writing prompts to help young people share their experiences and tell their stories.
👀 Check the link in our bio!
#CureThroughCommunity
My third human highlight is troyceasar a great father, husband, friend, international producer and sound man! If you have a question about music this guy is almost google. Ask him about traveling and making music as well! Right in your community you have this hidden gem.
#blackisbeautiful #blackisbeautifulbeer #thediatribe #thediatribegr #curethroughcommunity
Over the next five days we’ll tell you all about the new sex education program: What? Why? Who? Why? & When? If you want to get involved now- link to donate in bio & our Venmo is @the-diatribe ❤️ Help us #CureThroughCommunity & #UniteThroughDiatribe ✨✨
Hey Diatribe family,
We would like to challenge you to #CureThroughCommunity and we hope that you will join us.
Have you seen someone going above and beyond to create community, or teachers/schools going above and beyond to reach those they serve? Have you been creating art to bring people together? If so, share the stories along with this hashtag so when people need a “pick me up” they can search this hashtag to see some of the light still shining in the world.
And if you haven’t seen it, try to create it!
We believe in you. Keep shining y’all.
Happy National Poetry Month!
We have decided to try (we use that word loosely) to supply you all with writing prompts every day this month as a way to #CureThroughCommunity. If you use the prompt, tag us in your story, or post it online using the hashtag, and we will share some of our favorites.
We can not wait to see what you all create!
P.s. this might be a great idea for even those that do not consider themselves “creatives”. You got this!
#UniteThroughDiatribe
#UniteThroughDiatribe
Pictured here: A wild Peaceful Pisces Poet in her natural habitat 🤓.
Posted withregram • the_diatribe #KydSaidIt: “I enjoy engaging with the students and watching them open up with each session that passes.” ⠀
Not only is one of our teaching artists, Kyd Kane, the current Poet Laureate of #GrandRapids, she is the second consecutive #PoetLaureate of the city to work with The Diatribe. This team is a poetry #POWERHOUSE. #UniteThroughDiatribe⠀
You can find more Kyd KydSaidIt!
Help send Nigella to Spellman College! Link in bio✨ (Swipe to see the prompt of the day & the prizes involved in our challenge) At the heart of everything we do in this organization is our students! This dynamic youth reached out to ask if we could share her college fund, so OF COURSE, we are doing just that! A snippet from the GoFundMe page: “My goal is to earn my bachelor's degree and utilize it to acquire a career that involves helping people and changing the world in order for every minority to have better access to their rights. I never thought I would get accepted into a historically black college/university. So, my acceptance to Spelman came as a surprise. If I could actually attend, it would be better than a dream come true!” Help send this brilliant young black woman to college, y’all! Over the years we have worked with her, we have watched her grow into such a force to be reckoned with. We hope you’ll support her in anyway you can! Link to her fund in our bio. #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨
We would like to take the time to recognize a local graphic designer- Luis Fernandez! We have him to thank for the Grand on this photo, so you'll be seeing his work on several of our future posts! Check our bio for his LinkedIn to get connected with him. Thanks, Luis!
It may be hot outside, but you know what's cool?
YOU BOOKED ALL THE SPOTS IN THE "WE ARE WATER" WORKSHOP WITH @pretty_boi_sprout AND @joce_oh_lyn !!!
Thank you to everyone who went over to @blandfordnaturecenter’s website to reserve their spot for this amazing program!
For folks who still want to attend but couldn't sign up before we sold out, we'll make an announcement if any spots re-open in time.
We can't wait to #UniteThroughDiatribe with you!!!!
Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, you name it! We want you to write it! Today's prompt is to write about your favorite food! If you have trouble finding inspiration, try writing as if you're talking to someone who has NEVER had, or heard of, the dish that you're writing about!
Tag our page and use our hashtags to get a shout out in our IG story! Let's #UniteThroughDiatribe and find a #CureThroughCommunity ♡
Our 2020 Virtual Poetry Pop Up is just 4 days away! The memories of past pop ups are so close to us, it seems like just yesterday when we had our first one! We will be streaming the virtual showcase of our current summer programming students live via Facebook this Saturday, see our previous post for more details, link to the event is in our bio, and check out our Facebook page!
3 DAYS AWAY FROM OUR 2020 VIRTUAL POETRY POP UP!!!!!!!!
Remember when we got to do live poetry in person?? WELL WE'RE STILL DOING IT LIVE, BABY!!! Just virtually!
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Catch us supporting & celebrating our incredible students, who have joined us via Zoom calls for the majority of their summer just to learn how to be better poets. We couldn't be any more excited for this show if we tried!!! You don't wanna miss it, folks!
Our students are at the heart of our work. Regina (@reginaaaaaa.16 ) has been a part of our programming for the past few years, and we've watched her grow before our eyes into a fierce young poet. We want to shower her with love because we recently got the news she's been accepted into a prestigious program at @interlochenarts academy!!! Congratulations Regina! You are deserving of every blessing in your life. Watch out for the next generation of creatives, y'all, I promise you'll be hearing about her in the future!
Pictured: Our educational director, @rachel_gleason_poet blowing kid's minds with our summer programming!! Summer programming has officially begun and we are SO EXCITED!!
We had nearly 28 register for our beginners class, and 18 showed up on the first day!
Shout-out our Education Director, Rachel Gleason, for knocking 2020-Summer-Programing-during-a-pandemic out of the park! And shout out to all of the dynamic young people taking time out of their summer to soak up more knowledge!
Today wrapped up our #WritingToRightWrongs programming at Godwin Heights High School!
During the final session of each program, students are encouraged to share their poetry. It always blows us away how talented these young people are.
Some are shy, some have to work through their preconceived notions of what #poetry is and isn't, some are hesitant to share what they've written... but they push through.
We're so grateful for our teaching artists for the work they put in, the students for following along, their parents and educators for supporting their work, and our #donors for making all of this possible.
We continue to #UniteThroughDiatribe in schools, virtually AND in person, thanks to you.
Images by @quinnkphoto
"I love it when students surprise me. Sometimes, especially with masks, it's hard to tell if the content we're teaching is connecting, if the prompts are resonating.
"So, when a student that maybe didn't seem that engaged throughout the sessions gets up and shares their poem at the final reading and it's so powerful and insightful, it's a beautiful reminder some things aren't always visible on the surface and that success looks different for each teacher, for each student.
"I love those reminders - those moments, discussions, poems that blow me away and give me hope for the future."
- @gleasonrising, Teaching Artist
Of course, you know we're going to remind y'all our #PoetryMonth celebrations are still going on! Take part in the writing prompts and tag #UniteThroughDiatribe here on Instagram or donate at the link in our bio for the chance to win prizes from local vendors and the headlining poet, @natashatmiller, of our upcoming Mask-erade Reading!
There's still time to RSVP, so get yourself over to the event on our Facebook page and go go go go go!
Image by @quinnkphoto
Happy birthday to the late & great Maya Angelou. This day marks a day of rest for our team as we celebrate a brilliant mind. Swipe to see the 5th prompt of #NationalPoetryMonth! Tag us in your stories & posts to enter to win dope prizes at the end of this month. Donate at least $30 all month long to enter without posting a poem! Let’s #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨#UniteThroughDiatribe
The first poet ever on the cover of Vogue! ✨✨✨We stan. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽Swipe for the prompt of the day, and if you can’t scope out an article, why not write about @amandascgorman?? If you aren’t feeling inspired today but still want to enter to win incredible prizes- donate to our organization today! Link in bio #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙌🏽
Another poet performing at the upcoming Mask-erade Reading is the talented @anaisbaizan! Come out and support this rockin' student April 23 at 7 p.m. via our Facebook event! RSVP on the event page for the notification when we go live!
As always, we are so grateful for the folks who donate to our cause. YOU are the reason we get to uplift student voices and showcase amazing poets to inspire the #nextgeneration.
Not only does donating help us continue this work, if you donate to The Diatribe this month, you enter to win dope prizes! Another way to enter is by part in our writing prompts (today’s is just a swipe away).
Keep up with us on socials to get a look-see at the #prizes you could get your hands on!
#UniteThroughDiatribe
TONIGHT!! 🎉🎉🎉 Event link & donate link in our bio.
We are having our annual April Fun'raiser this evening, where we'll have Poets, on Poets, on Poets & our feature is @natashatmiller ! While we have been posting about how excited we are for that event, we want to zoom our focus as to why: our STUDENTS! When we ask for donations, this is why. At the heart of everything we do is our youth- those who will go forward to change tomorrow. We are not just looking for more funding to help our organization grow, we are asking for more funding so we can increase our reach to those who might not even know they are poets yet. This Fun'raiser event happens every April so we can fund our Summer Programming & ensure our students are able to attend FOR FREE! Help us reach more extraordinary youth today- donate to our organization (link in bio) #unitethroughdiatribe to find a #CureThroughCommunity 🔥
This Friday, join us for a workshop hosted by the_diatribe that aims to help attendees peel back the layers they have built to expose the raw, beautiful, and impactful pieces of their story that many fail to see as relatable.
Click the link in our bio for more information and to register!
#umich #gradschool #unitethroughdiatribe
Over the next five days we’ll tell you all about the new sex education program: What? Why? Who? Why? & When? If you want to get involved now- link to donate in bio & our Venmo is @the-diatribe ❤️ Help us #CureThroughCommunity & #UniteThroughDiatribe ✨✨
Over the next five days we’ll tell you all about the sex education program: What? Why? Who? Why? & When? If you want to get involved now- link to donate in bio & our Venmo is @the-diatribe ❤️ Help us #CureThroughCommunity & #UniteThroughDiatribe ✨✨
Have you purchased your ticket yet? The day is almost here; only 10 to go. (The link to score your very own access to my workshop, or maybe a meet & greet with Rudy mf-ing Francisco is in my bio 📣) I'll be sharing the top ten reasons to go once a day until we get there, you can see those in my IG story ♡ .
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Just grateful to be a part of it.
#UniteThroughDiatribe #MyDiatribe #TheGrandShowcase
These 3 are the gracious hosts of West Michigan’s most super exclusive event happening on April 23rd!! (Swipe for the prompt of the day!) We got Poets on Poets on Poets (Ft. @natashatmiller ), hosted by @fableistruth @gleasonrising & the poet laureate of Grand Rapids: @kydsaidit and we couldn’t be more excited if we tried!! Since we pride ourselves on being majorly inclusive as an organization, you know we couldn’t stop at giving our valued guests the benefit of a private poetry performance- so we’re bringing it to you LIVE! From our Facebook page as well as @newhollandbrew on April 23rd you can catch the reading of a lifetime!! If you are bummed you aren’t invited to the exclusive event, why not cheer yourself up by entering to win some dope prizes??!! Tag us in a post of you reading a poem inspired by any of our prompts this month & you might just #stayhome with a W! Don’t feel like writing? Got weak wrists?? Tap the link in our bio to donate to our organization any day this month & you can still enter to win! #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity ✨
As an organization that lives and breathes for our community, we are so grateful to be held in the same regard by those around us. The love we are receiving in an otherwise hard time has been incredibly uplifting. @woosahoutfitters has created these 4 posters, uplifting words 4 of our org's teaching artists through paper and ink! Every message is from a black artist living in Grand Rapids, speaking truth to black experience in our country. This is what #doingthework looks like, y'all!!!
We are so overjoyed to see the final product of this very emotional project. Huge thank you to Woosah Outfitters. (Did we mention only 100 of these babies will be released??)
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😍🔥 Shoutout to the teaching artists/staff involved:
@kydkanepoetry
@iamautopilot
@joce_oh_lyn
@fableistruth
#AboutLastNight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Woohoo!!! We did it!! Thank you to everyone who was sharing space with us, virtually & in person! Thank you to @newhollandbrew for hosting us! Huge thanks to everyone who donated, our organization wouldn’t be here without you! Those of you who might have missed things, head to our Facebook page to check out the recording, so you can get rid of your FOMO- check the last slide for our prompt of the day & #UniteThroughDiatribe to find a #CureThroughCommunity
Nov. 23rd at the Grand Showcase. Photo by Zmbiephrsh #UniteThroughDiatribe
So excited! Thanks to the_diatribe for sharing some awesome swag for our poets participating in Tuesday's Poetry Cafe in room 217!
#BulldogPoets #unitethroughdiatribe #mydiatribe
[ I just realized yesterday that I haven’t talked about my involvement with the_diatribe this year! Time for that to change 😤
I’ve been working as a communications assistant and contracted photographer with this wonderful org since February. Seeing the work these folks do both bolster kids to be authentically, powerfully themselves while fulfilling the teaching artists and everyone involved? It’s magical - especially since I used to be one of those kids.
There are layers here to experience, and I truly think this organization has become a powerhouse of its own design. Thank you to the people who #UniteThroughDiatribe with me and I’m excited to continue this work with all of you! ]
SOTD: Universe // teebs ft. DayDream Masi
It's National Poetry Month!
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Happy birthday to the late & great Maya Angelou. This day marks a day of rest for our team as we celebrate a brilliant mind. Swipe to see the 5th prompt of #NationalPoetryMonth! Tag us in your stories & posts to enter to win dope prizes at the end of this month. Donate at least $30 all month long to enter without posting a poem! Let’s #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨#UniteThroughDiatribe
Taking the prompt from the_diatribe for #nationalpoetrymonth. Directions were to take a selfie and write about yourself using loving and positive language.
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More hair on my head than there could be by now
Every grey earned through experience and grit
A wisdom in my eyes that did not show in photos from my youth
A little redness, ever present, reminds that blood is still flowing
My heart may have tried to stop the flow, it was tired
But my soul was stronger and held on to life
In the end it’s unknown how this journey will end
But those who walk beside me make all the difference
#unitethroughdiatribe
Yay Nigella!!
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Help send Nigella to Spellman College! Link in bio✨ (Swipe to see the prompt of the day & the prizes involved in our challenge) At the heart of everything we do in this organization is our students! This dynamic youth reached out to ask if we could share her college fund, so OF COURSE, we are doing just that! A snippet from the GoFundMe page: “My goal is to earn my bachelor's degree and utilize it to acquire a career that involves helping people and changing the world in order for every minority to have better access to their rights. I never thought I would get accepted into a historically black college/university. So, my acceptance to Spelman came as a surprise. If I could actually attend, it would be better than a dream come true!” Help send this brilliant young black woman to college, y’all! Over the years we have worked with her, we have watched her grow into such a force to be reckoned with. We hope you’ll support her in anyway you can! Link to her fund in our bio. #UniteThroughDiatribe to #CureThroughCommunity 🙏🏽✨
Just a few more days! You can pre-order Daniel Lamboy's duncle1's book today on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It drops this Friday!
Congratulations, Daniel on your first of many books!
#GrandvillePride!
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This dynamic student of ours is now a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! *SCREAMS*
Shout-out to duncle1 for publishing his first collection of poems, and for being our first student to do so!
Go look up his book “The Fume of Fresh Ash” on Barnes & Noble and Amazon!
#MyDiatribe #UniteThroughDiatribe
WE ARE ONLY TEN DAYS AWAY FROM THE MASK-ERADE READING! Will you be watching? If so, you'll get to hear from Marcey, along with other talented spoken word artists - and nobody wants to miss that. Get ready to #UniteThroughDiatribe!
If you want to participate in our daily #writingprompts for the chance to win some awesome prizes, head over swipe on this post for the prompt of the day! If writing isn't your thing but you still want to support, head on over to the link in our description and donate to help us continue our work! This ALSO enters you into the prize pool, so it's a win-win!
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