If you hop on over to Poets.org today, they have put together a wonderful collection of poems to get you through Election Day! The whole list is here:
Highlights:
“The 19th Amendment & My Mama” by Mahogany L. Browne I always took it for granted, the right to vote
“Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean” by Patricia Smith Hide the awkward jolt of jawline, the fluttering eye, that wide...
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes Let America be America again...
“Pledge Allegiance” by Natalie Scenters-Zapico I tap-tap-tap the window, while my mother smiles and mouths...
“Old South Meeting House” by January Gill O'Neil We draw breath from brick...
“Election Year” by Richard Blanco The last ghostly patch of snow slips away—
“Calling on All Silent Minorities” by June Jordan HEY...
“When the Orders Came” by Fatimah Asghar they shipped us to the sanctuary camps...
“Reparation” by Joshua Bennett 40 acres & a jewel-encrusted orchid crown...
“How to Write a Poem in a Time of War” by Joy Harjo You can’t begin just anywhere. It’s a wreck...
“America” by Robert Creeley America, you ode for reality!
“September 1, 1939” by W. H. Auden I sit in one of the dives...
“Ghazal: America the Beautiful” by Alicia Ostriker Do you remember our earnestness our sincerity...
“Never Again” by Pamela Sneed At the end of every holocaust film I’ve seen and there...
“One Vote” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil My parents are from countries...
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America...
“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is...
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