Performativity
By Kat AbdallahMy teachers ask me
after seven months of genocide
if I’m holding up alright.
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Kat AbdallahMy teachers ask me
after seven months of genocide
if I’m holding up alright.
By Joy HarjoJoy Harjo performs at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Harjo opens her performance with an honor song, followed by the poem, "In a World Long Before This One."
By Allison Adelle Hedge CokeIn a room facing chimneys
over the place Nancy Morejón rests
between sleeps lining free lines
she whispers to hearing DC:
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