What Do You Stay Alive For: Poetry Showcase & Resource Fair

“What Do You Stay Alive For?" is a showcase and resource hub advocating for suicide awareness. There are many external systemic forms of oppression that affect humanity's internal psyche. Since COVID and other local and national events, people have had a harder time pushing themselves to stay alive. By collaborating with artists writing about mental health and collaborating with organizations who are serving underserved community members in mental health access, we are creating a space to remind people the joy to stay alive.

This event was a collaboration with Maya Williams and the Portland Poet Laureate Program, with support from the Portland Public Library, Congress Square Park, and Maine Humanities Council.

Photos by Sofia Aldinio