Stats & Stanzas: Poetry for the Public’s Health | co-hosted by Drs. Ryan J. Petteway, Shanaé Burch, and LeConté Dill.
Date and Time
Nov 2, 2025 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Nov 2, 2025 6:00 pm
450K
Join us for an evening of healing, resistance, and solidarity, featuring poetry readings from a line-up of poets whose work embodies the spirit of poetic health justice. Every social movement of health consequence has been backed by poetry, music, and dance to codify resistance, galvanize community, nurture imagination, and testify for more just futures. For those of us “at the margins,” creative modes of expression have always been critical to our joy, grief, healing, world-making, and survival. For us, “poetry is not a luxury.” Poems are data. And poetry is evidence. In a time when LOVE and RESISTANCE must be simultaneous acts, this event will illuminate the necessity of both STATS and STANZAS to create public health futures of radical possibility.
This APHA Press event, part of the APHA 2025 Annual Meeting & Expo program, is free and open to the public. The co-hosts, Drs. Ryan J. Petteway, Shanaé Burch, and LeConté Dill, are authors in Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, 2nd ed., edited by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, and Derek M. Griffith, PhD. The book will be available for purchase and signing by the editors and authors.
FREE and OPEN to the public.
