Rise is a poem that Greenland poet Aka Niviâna and Marshall Island poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner wrote in 2018. This poem shows how poetry can address catastrophic events involving the global population. Artistic statements on climate change can have varying degrees of involvement and this poem offers first-hand experience of the consequences of the climate crisis. The two poets create a dialogue between islanders threatened by the effects of climate change in their homelands and, near the end, their conversation turns into a stirring global call to action. In late summer 2018, the poets produced a recorded video performance of the poem, filmed on top of a melting Greenland glacier. The short film enhances the poem’s visual language highlighting a visible connection between the poets and their land and sea. Since then, the poem has been translated and the video subtitled into 8 languages.