Title: 23 Resistance Poems to Express Your Rage at Protests and Rallies
Headings: 23 Resistance Poems to Express Your Rage
23 Resistance Poems to Express Your Rage
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“ Let America Be American Again ” by Langston Hughes:
“ 9 Things I Would Like to Tell Every to Every Teenage Girl ” by Melissa NewMan-Evans
“ I’m Explaining A Few Things ,” by Pablo Neruda
“ Protest ” by Imani Cezanne
“ I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy ” by Morgan Parker
“ Angry Black Woman ” by Imani Cezanne
“ An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood ” by Elizabeth Acevedo
“RIOT” BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS
“The Type” by Sarah Kay
“ Tonight, In Oakland ” by Danez Smith
“ Angry Black Woman ” by Porsha O.
When Rap Spoke Straight to God by Erica Dawson
“ On Resistance for the Immigrant ” by Bernard Ferguson
“ ICE Agents Storm My Porch ” BY MARIA MELENDEZ KELSON
“ The New Colossus ” by Emma Lazarus
“ Not one more refugee death ” by Emmy Pérez
A Poem by Mahogany L. Browne for Black & Brown Girls Gone Missing
“ Ghazal, After Ferguson ” by Yusef Komunyakaa
“ Accents ” by Denice Frohman
“ Short Speech to My Friends ” by Amiri Baraka
“ Still I Rise ” by Maya Angelou

Content: Veins and nerves. Hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies. Not excuses.” Read more poetry by Sarah Kay in No Matter the Wreckage. “ Tonight, In Oakland ” by Danez Smith
“Tonight, the police
have turned to their God for forgiveness. Tonight, we bury nothing, we serve a God
with no need for shovels, we serve a God
with a bad hip & a brother in prison.” Read more of Danez Smith’s poetry in his National Book Award Finalist book Don’t Call Us Dead. “ Angry Black Woman ” by Porsha O.
“Mad, ‘cause ‘education is the key,’
Yet they keep the poor locked out.