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: She is always ghost before ever considered missing.” Read more of Mahogany L. Browne’s poetry in Black Girl Magic: A Poem. “ Ghazal, After Ferguson ” by Yusef Komunyakaa
“Somebody go & ask Biggie to orate
what’s going down in the streets. No, an attitude is not a suicide note
written on walls around the streets.” Read Yusef Komunyakaa’s Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. “ Accents ” by Denice Frohman
“There is no telling my mama to be quiet. She don’t know quiet. Her voice is one size better fit all,
and you best not tell her to hush.