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LOUDER TOGETHER
A Crowdsourced Poetry Initiative
Creating performances & poetry that speak to issues of human rights & social justice
LOUDER TOGETHER
A Crowdsourced Poetry Initiative
Creating performances & poetry that speak to issues of human rights & social justice
About Louder Together
Who can participate
Activists, writers, and survivors of social injustice are all invited to submit an original verse or poem to Louder Together.
How poems are produced
Each poem starts with a national call to action on a specific topic. Submissions will be edited into a final crowdsourced poem.
The Series
"I AM RURAL AMERICA"
Produced in partnership with Justice For Migrant Women, a longstanding Voices and Faces Project ally. This crowdsourced poem will feature the voices and testimonies of the immigrant and farmworker persons – most of them Black, Brown, Indigenous or other communities of color – from across North and South America.
"WE ARE THE STORIES WE TELL"
During the past decade, more than 1,200 writers from across North American and African have participated in The Stories We Tell, our testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence. In “We Are the Stories We Tell,” novelist and workshop co-creator R. Clifton Spargo turns the art of listening to survivors into a powerful, crowdsourced piece.
"IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT EXPLOITATION"
Survivors of gender-based violence and commercial sexual exploitation were asked by to envision a world where no one is bought, sold, or exploited. The resulting poetic performance debuted at the 2021 World Without Exploitation Annual Gala. “Imagine a World Without Exploitation” was arranged by writer and CSW founder Anne K. Ream and performed under the direction of Ann Filmer (Steppenwolf Theater, 16th Street Theater).
Now Accepting Submissions
"TELLING A NEW STORY ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION"
This crowdsourced poem features the voices and testimonies of returning individuals and citizens (formerly incarcerated persons of any immigration status); currently incarcerated persons; and those negatively impacted by the criminal justice system in the U.S. Its verses speak to the racial, economic, and social injustices that have contributed to our national crisis of mass incarceration.
