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: You will ask why his poetry
doesn’t speak to us of dreams, of the leaves,
of the great volcanoes of his native land? Come and see the blood in the streets,
come and see
the blood in the streets,
come and see the blood
in the streets!” Read more in Neruda’s Spain in the Heart. “ Protest ” by Imani Cezanne
“My older brother’s really good at being older. He’s the kind of brown to girls write poems about…I called my brother today just because I could, because he’s still alive.” “ I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy ” by Morgan Parker
“I feel most colored when I am
the punch line. When I am the trigger.” Read more in There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce. “ Angry Black Woman ” by Imani Cezanne
“So, ask me why I’m mad.