Readings from Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest

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Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest

Edited by Ona Gritz & Taylor Carmen Savath

From the introduction by Ona Gritz:

“It is difficult to get the news from poems,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “yet men die miserably every day for the lack of what is found there.”

News comes to us in swaths. Poetry considers moments. New comes to us raw. Poetry distills and, in both senses of the word, reflects. Taylor and I began assembling this collection in the spring of 2019, the airwaves filled with divisiveness and hate speech, the supposed leader of the free world governing through a Twitter feed in gibberish and lies. In resistance, we chose to seek out and off that which is found in poetry. Welcome to these pages. Welcome to eloquence and truth.

We expect over 20 of the contributors to present. Click here for a full list of poets in the anthology.