Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Political & Protest
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Taunting Thoughts from the Dark Abyss
by Coreen Yama
A job seeker cycles through endless rejection. An exchange student at a casino makes a desperate bid for escape. A woman survives a horrific assault only to encounter another monstrous injustice. These raw, roiling poems give voice to those lost...
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War and Other Inconveniences
by Trevor W. Harrison
This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of “A Pretty Good Planet” appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of “Guernica, Then and Now,” appeared in Canadian...
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Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks
A Journey of Self-Discovery by Larry Busch
"Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks: A Journey of Self-Discovery" is a free-verse poem about a young mixed-blood (European and Indigenous) male who, during a solo canoe trip, discovers hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs. By...
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Voices of Awdal
Somali Wisdom and Heritage in Verse by Safiya Jowhar and Hodan Osman
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful” – Rita Dov What does it mean to preserve a legacy through words? Somali poets answer this question with the fierce beauty and timeless wisdom of their verse. This anthology shines a...
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Notes from Oblivion
by Gary Russo
Notes from Oblivion will appeal to an adult readership that enjoys hard-hitting, thought-provoking poetry. Themes explored include unsophisticated populism, media saturation, freedom and censorship, isolation, and the angst of love. They are...
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Mannaka The Dreadlock Prostitute The Debate
by Ralph Lee As Kai Lumumba
This Book is a Masterpiece of Art that Offers Remedy to Readers of All Classes. This Book is a Therapeutic Exercise that gives Healing Socially and Individually and a Reading That You are Bound to Enjoy! This Book is Musical, and Theatrical, yet...
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I Donat
by Kofi-Kasha Makka-Abakan
I! Donat : Continues the tradition Y.S.H.D.A.N I Will Nevah Blackslide I Barbarian Vibes-eth in English Yardie (patois) Stylie Embrace I culture a'WOKE'nly {Worthy Of Kindness&Empathy} battah dung Instutionalized Race-I-sm DEMs PXKMs booklessly...
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Every Religion Has Two Faces
Poetic Questionings by Henry Summerfield
The poems in this book explore humankind's relationship with nature, nature's combination of bountifulness and cruelty, and how man resembles and differs from other species. They ponder the tension between faith and doubt, the good and the evil...
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Embers
by Howard Giskin
I have sat at the feet of teachers, who have sat at the feet of masters, so I have touched enlightenment thrice removed, which has the feeling of a handsome baseball glove in a shop window that I have not the money to buy. I know this feeling...
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Moccasins on concrete and other poems
by Donald McKay
A collection of concise and mostly short poems with recurring themes of our relationship with nature, the complexities of love and social justice. These poems are unpretentious in their direct and often unexpected imagery, with occasional threads...
