Never Again (Rwanda Poem)
By Carlos Andrés GómezThis poem is in video format.
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Rich Villarlacking a proper entrance
into a poem
about Arizona Senate Bill 1070
By Marie-Elizabeth MaliPulling out of Union Square station, the subway
sounds the first three notes of There's a place for us,
somewhere a place for us. A woman sits on me, shoves
By Yvette Neisser MorenoSo this is how they decided to take him—
at the end of his life,
his frame shrunken, his wild rambling days over
By Dan VeraThurgood whispers in Sonia's ears
You know they said the same things about me?
Master two languages, graduate at the top
By Martín EspadaIn the republic of poetry,
a train full of poets
rolls south in the rain
By Francisco AragónDespite the absent head (whose eyes
were the green of apples)
By Allison Adelle Hedge CokeAmerica, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in.
Sing back the moment you cherished breath.
Sing you home into yourself and back to reaso