Welcome to Poetry Walks! A podcast that brings poems from our hearts to your ears. Center yourself through imaginative and calming poems as Arlo guides you through the city. Step within through these relaxing poems that question existence, friendship, activism, love, and self-worth. This episode features words by Marcellus Khalifah Williams in honor of his life.

Land Acknowledgement:

The land acknowledgement has been adapted from teachers at the Goethe Institute in so called Berlin.

We acknowledge the ancestral and traditional territories of the Semnones, Burgundians, Hevelli and Sprevane tribes who were the original Germanic and Slavic inhabitants of the lands which we currently call Berlin.

We recognize that Berlin has been and continues to be the home of many different peoples from around the world.

At the same time, we recognized that not all peoples have been welcomed on the land and that acts of genocide have been perpetuated in the name of protecting the land.

We seek to respect the land, the diversity of peoples, and the complex histories of Berlin as we engage in Future Monuments.

https://native-land.ca/

https://www.whose.land/en/

https://library.chatham.edu/whoseland

https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/

Land acknowledgement is a way of showing historical accuracy, transparency, and honoring First Nations of this land. While land acknowledgement is not enough on its own, we invite you do the research and understand the multiplicity of histories under your feet.

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