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20th & 21st Century Protest Poetry

Poems That Make A Difference

November 1, 2018November 7, 2018

Amiri Baraka’s “Incident”

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October 31, 2018November 7, 2018

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s “Dear Matafele Peinam”

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April 5, 2018November 7, 2018

Jane Hirshfield’s “Those Who Cannot Act”

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March 14, 2017November 7, 2018

Paula Meehan’s “The Solace of Artemis”

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February 26, 2017November 7, 2018

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting”

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February 25, 2017November 7, 2018

Charles Bernstein’s “On Election Day”

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February 23, 2017November 7, 2018

Yusef Komunyakaa’s “We Never Know”

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February 16, 2017November 7, 2018

Kim Stafford’s “Dear America”

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February 7, 2017November 7, 2018

Haki Madhubuti’s “For the Consideration of Poets”

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January 22, 2017November 7, 2018

Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones”

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May 29, 2014November 7, 2018

Lorine Niedecker’s “The Radio Talk This Morning [The Obliteration]”

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May 20, 2014November 7, 2018

Anne Sexton’s “Snow”

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April 29, 2014October 31, 2018

William Stafford’s “A Message from the Wanderer”

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February 11, 2014October 31, 2018

Jack Gilbert’s “A Description of Happiness in Kobenhavn”

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January 16, 2014October 31, 2018

Logya Pema’s “Life Experience”

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December 17, 2013October 31, 2018

Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel”

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December 9, 2013October 31, 2018

Dunya Mikhail’s “The War Works Hard”

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December 6, 2013October 31, 2018

Ahmed Fouad Negm’s “Who Are They And Who Are We?”

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December 4, 2013October 31, 2018

Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s “This, From The Diagnosis”

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December 1, 2013October 31, 2018

Theodore Roethke’s “The Geranium”

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November 29, 2013October 31, 2018

Nelly Sachs’ “How many drowned ages”

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November 19, 2013October 31, 2018

Nazim Hikmet’s “Letters From A Man In Solitary”

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November 18, 2013October 31, 2018

Rita Dove’s “Yellow House on the Corner”

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November 17, 2013October 31, 2018

Barbara Guest’s “Illyria”

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November 15, 2013October 31, 2018

Anna Świrszczyńska’s “Building the Barricade” (excerpt)

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November 14, 2013October 31, 2018

Brian Turner’s “Sadiq”

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November 11, 2013October 31, 2018

Mahmoud Darwish’s “I Come From There”

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November 10, 2013October 31, 2018

Yehuda Amichai’s “Autobiography, 1952”

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November 8, 2013October 31, 2018

Adrienne Rich’s “For The Record”

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November 5, 2013October 31, 2018

Doug Anderson’s “Judgment”

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November 4, 2013October 31, 2018

Sam Witt’s “Occupation Dreamland”

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November 3, 2013October 6, 2020

Sharon Olds’ “Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921”

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October 30, 2013October 31, 2018

June Jordan’s “Moving towards Home”

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October 30, 2013October 31, 2018

W.S. Merwin’s “Chords”

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