Political & Protest Poetry

Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks

A Good Cry

Nikki Giovanni

Here to Stay

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

Franny Choi

Unsettling America

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Terrance Hayes

End of Empire

Marissa Davis

How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson

Part of a Story That Started Before Me

Various

Thrall

Natasha Trethewey

Let the Poets Govern

Camonghne Felix

Call US What We Carry

Amanda Gorman

Plantains and Our Becoming

Melania Luisa Marte

Death of the First Idea

Rickey Laurentiis

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

James Baldwin

Chimera

Phoebe Giannisi

Every Day We Get More Illegal

Juan Felipe Herrera

Playlist for the Apocalypse

Rita Dove

Joy Is My Middle Name

Sasha Debevec-McKenney

US (a.)

Saul Williams

Resistance, Rebellion, Life

Amit Majmudar

Don't Call US Dead

Danez Smith

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

Wade in the Water

Tracy K. Smith

Social Poetics

Mark Nowak

Path of Totality

Niina Pollari

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Diaz

Yellow Rain

Mai Der Vang

The Rupture Tense

Jenny Xie

From From

Monica Youn

Regaining Unconsciousness

Harryette Mullen

The Book of Alice

Diamond Forde

One Last Word

Nikki Grimes

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Morgan Parker

The Book of the Dead

Muriel Rukeyser

Magical Negro

Morgan Parker

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Hanif Abdurraqib

Resistencia

Mark Eisner, Tina Escaja

Have You Been Long Enough at Table

Leslie Sainz