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 Antoinette BrimLet the moon untangle itself
from the clothesline, as coming daylight
diminishes its lamp to memory.
By Claire ZoghbHe’s put the war out of his mind. Shelling and murdered relatives behind him.
By M.J. IuppaThe fence that wasn't a barrier, that didn't hold
anything back or up, but was the grid over the scene of
smoke rising, smoldering from September
By Susan BrennanWe stand at the Capitol
seized in snapshots
of curious tourists
By Elliott batTzedekAcross a small suburban lawn
a very large man is riding
a very large tractor mower
By Reginald Harriswalk long enough
with a pebble in your shoe
and walking with a pebble becomes
normal
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 Joseph O. Legaspislides down into my body, soft
lambs wool, what everybody
in school is wearing, and for me