Split This Rock – Marlena Chertock

Resigning from the Split This Rock Board

My heart is breaking. I no longer feel safe or welcome in Split This Rock. Staff released this statement last Friday, in […]

Last year really flew by for me. Is this what getting older feels like? If so, I’m going to try my best […]

Spring is finally here! Even though it’s still cold out there for a D.C. spring, it smells like flowers and mulch and […]

While the weather outside may be frightful, plenty of writers — including this one — are giving readings through the winter months […]

This is another lucky year for me and literary festivals/conferences! First, my panel for AWP 2018 was accepted, now my panel for […]

The Split This Rock 2016 poetry festival is coming up soon! I’m so excited to be speaking on a panel about the […]

If you’d asked 8-year-old, third-grader Marlena where her fable writing would take her, she never would have suggested that she would one […]

On March 29, in a Saturday morning panel at the 2014 Split This Rock poems of provocation and witness poetry festival, the […]