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Image Description: At the top, Split This Rock’s red logo is above white text in a solid black box that reads "Top Poems of 2024." Collaged images in square frames of the 10 featured poets surround the text. In the top left corner is a photo of Jessica Abughattas. In the top right corner is Samah Serour Fadil. From left to right in the second row are Tonee Mae Moll, Chrysanthemum, Vievee Francis, and Jose Hernandez Diaz. From left to right in the bottom row are Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Johnson Cheu, Janine Mogannam, and Ghinwa Jawhari. 

Celebrate 2024's Most Read Poems from the Poem of the Week Series!

As we end the year in reflection, we are grateful for the 48 incredible poems we've had the honor of publishing through the Poem of the Week Series in 2024. Each December, we crunch the numbers to come up with a list of the 10 poems most beloved by our readership. Join us in rediscovering and celebrating these 10 very special poems, all available for free as text and audio in The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: 

  1. “Litany for My Father” by Jessica Abughattas
  2. “prongs into the nation” by Samah Serour Fadil
  3. “Burning Haibun as Portrait: 9 months on HRT, Georgia on MS Word” by Tonee Mae Moll
  4. “Alias” by Chrysanthemum
  5. “A WOMAN AT THE BOOKSTORE READING WONDERS HOW I MADE THE LEAP FROM MY FIRST BOOK TO MY SECOND WHICH WON AN AWARD” by Vievee Francis
  6.  “Ode to My Older Sister, Letty, for Being the First in the Family to Go to College” by Jose Hernandez Diaz
  7. “Anthropocene Pastoral” by Subhaga Crystal Bacon
  8. “Becky Declines Barbie’s Dinner Invitation” by Johnson Cheu
  9.  “When I am asked How Are You?? during the genocide of my people” by Janine Mogannam
  10. “the butcher” by Ghinwa Jawhari
We need your support to keep the Poem of the Week Series going so we can continue amplifying the work of poets whose voices have been historically undervalued. If you love reading the poems each week, please consider making a one-time gift or becoming a sustaining monthly donor. You can donate online or by mail. To donate by mail, please send a check payable to "Split This Rock" to Split This Rock, 1301 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington DC 20036.

Thank you for all your support in 2024! 

With continued appreciation for your readership, and looking ahead to a new year of poems,  
The Poem of the Week Editorial Team
 
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Collage Image Credits: Jessica Abughattas by Christine Donlon. Samah Serour Fadil by A.G. WorX. Chrysanthemum by Zach Oren. Jose Hernandez Diaz by Veronica Navarro. Subhaga Crystal Bacon by AKR Studio. 

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