‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 2019: Poetry for Puerto Rico…Writers Gather to Raise Funds on Anniversary of Hurricane Maria. (Rebroadcast)

On this show, writers speak out at the Poets for Puerto Rico fundraiser held at the American Poetry Museum in Northeast DC on September 22nd 2018, one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing 3,000 TO 8,000 people as the island languished in neglect from the U.S. federal government. With Tony Medina, Seve Torres, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Evelyn Mejil, C. Thomas, Anthony Morales, Noel Quiñones, Nicole Capó Martinez, Sami Miranda If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. You can also give a one-time donation on PayPal. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Thank you!