Poetry Service Announcement (PoeS.A.) is forwarded by Heid E. Erdrich who collaborates with other artists to promote poetry as public art. JustUs is a poetry crowd-sourcing project of PoeS.A. supported by a Camille Gage fellowship. 

We hold events of our times in our bodies and voices. Please share your experience of your embodied senses at this time while helping us to crowdsource a poem for our times on the theme of justice. You can add your voice through the codes in English by clicking our logo below and in Spanish here. Please feel free to share the links on your social media. Miigwech!

PoeSA is also a part of “Kalidoscope of Love”, a 1000 person-powered animated Monarch butterfly composed of colored tiles printed with poems. PoeSA is also dozens of poetry readings for mutual support, printed posters, banners, and messages of resistance, and many other projects you will soon see on social media -including a poem-film on reproductive justice!

Here’s a film of a spoken word collaboration PoeS.A. and Heid participated in “Kaleidoscope of Love”: https://www.facebook.com/reel/4350914661826350

Heid’s spoken word is contained here within the primary song – a bit into the the extraordinary video by Pablo Jones. This work means a lot to PoeSA. Heid adapted the JustUS poem from her crowd-sourced project for the audio. The words you see folks forming were ones Heid chose. And each tile in the mosaic is printed with poems by poets that Heid selected. Poets Lynette Reini-Grandell, Nimo H Farah, Junauda Petrus, and Isavela Lolez came out to read to 1000+ people who were showing their love of immigrant neighbors on a very cold day.

OTHER PoeSA events:

“ICE OUT for Good,” was a team-built snow sculpture in memory of poet Renee Nicole Good, at the corner of West Franklin Ave. and Lake of the Isles which was supported by PoeS.A.  Please see Heid’s NEWS & EVENTS to learn more about PoeS.A. activities.

In 2024-2025, PoeS.A. crowd-sourced a poem on places in Minneapolis that have long been important to Indigenous people. Heid selected and commissioned 20 poets from justice-impacted communities to write in and for specific places in the city as part of her Academy of American Poets fellowship. Here’s a video of Heid reading of the poem: