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 and mine ain’t on speaking terms.” Read more from Elizabeth Acevedo in her novel The Poet X.
“RIOT” BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS
“Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty
(not like Two Dainty Negroes in Winnetka)
and they were coming toward him in rough ranks. In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud. And not detainable. And not discreet.” Read more poetry from Gwendolyn Brooks in A Street in Bronzeville. “The Type” by Sarah Kay
“Do not mistake yourself for a guardian. Or a muse.