Political & Protest Poetry

Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks

Place

Jorie Graham

Coming in to Land

Andrew Motion

Mezzanine

Zoe Hitzig

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

Franny Choi

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Terrance Hayes

Tarta Americana

J. Michael Martinez

Golden Ax

Rio Cortez

My Kill Adore Him

Paul Martínez Pompa

Juan Luna's Revolver

Luisa Igloria

The Border Simulator

Gabriel Dozal, Natasha Tiniacos

Call US What We Carry

Amanda Gorman

Jailbreak of Sparrows

Martín Espada

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

How to Love a Country

Richard Blanco

Half of the World in Light

Juan Felipe Herrera

Empire

Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Aina Hanau / Birth Land

Brandy Nalani McDougall

Every Day We Get More Illegal

Juan Felipe Herrera

Playlist for the Apocalypse

Rita Dove

Fear Less

Tracy K Smith

Razzle Dazzle

Major Jackson

Joy Is My Middle Name

Sasha Debevec-McKenney

US (a.)

Saul Williams

Unfurl

Eli Clare

Resistance, Rebellion, Life

Amit Majmudar

Machete

Tomás Q. Morín

Lessons on Expulsion

Erika L. Sánchez

Don't Call US Dead

Danez Smith

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

Wade in the Water

Tracy K. Smith

Social Poetics

Mark Nowak

Bimboland

Erin Taylor

On My Way to Liberation

H. Melt

Citizen Illegal

José Olivarez

The Singing Word

Walt Hunter

Another Day

Wendell Berry

Yellow Rain

Mai Der Vang

The Rupture Tense

Jenny Xie