DCTRENDING announces the COVID Poetry and Art Project, working in partnership with Mike Maggio to share pandemic-themed poetry and art by local writers and artists, as COVID-19 unites us in a time of collective trauma.

Gene Bruskin: The Moment Was and Is Now

To meet Gene Bruskin is to meet a titan of the labor movement. Talking with him opens up a world that most history books barely broach. A tall, burly man with a booming voice, wispy gray hair and a constant cough that interrupts just about every other sentence, Bruskin is the embodiment of what it means to be a grassroots labor organizer.

LOCAL AUTHORS, PERFORMANCES, SOCIAL CHANGEMike MaggioFebruary 21, 2020Latest Stories

There’s No Place Like Home: An Afternoon of Palestinian Poetry and Art

This past month, the Westmoreland Congregational Church hosted “Visions of Home: An Afternoon of Palestinian Poetry and Art.”