“is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are”
—author, Alice Walker

“One of the important voices of the global justice movement”
—Yes! Magazine

Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism and human compassion. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences including Bioneers and the Dream Reborn, colleges, poetry venues, protests and places of worship. Dellinger has shared podiums and stages with luminaries such as Cornel West, Danny Glover, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., AniDifranco, Billy Bragg, Michael Franti, Eve Ensler, Jim Hightower, Paul Hawken and many others.

Dellinger’s work has appeared on radio, in visionary films, books, anthologies, and in magazines, from the New York Times Magazine toYes!Magazine. His collection of poems, love letter to the milky way—now in its third printing—has sold thousands of copies to enthusiastic readers in North America, South America, the United Kingdom and Australia. His poems have been shared at gatherings and conferences; in classrooms and prisons; in women’s groups, men’s groups, and spiritual communities.

Dellinger has studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry since 1990 and is finishing his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on Martin Luther King Jr. and the connections between cosmology, ecology and justice. Dellinger has taught at Prescott College, John F. Kennedy University, Naropa University-Oakland, and the Esalen Institute. Dellinger lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.