The Poetry of Participatory Democracy

On Election Day, Steve Zeitlin, founding director of CityLore and author of The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness (Cornell University Press, 2016), and Bob Holman, poet, filmmaker and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, return with more poems and stories from people engaged with our democracy from their project, "All the Voices: Across the Great DivideS.”  They invite you to email your stories and poems about voting and being a participant in democracy to poetry@citylore.org.