poetry
Ten poetry books that illuminate a decade’s struggles
January 15, 2020Every movement for social change—in fact, every socialist revolution—has had its poetry that illuminates, inspires and helps unify our struggles.
Read more‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
Read morePOETRY: Guessing the Country
December 9, 2019The country where big money is speech and health care is a prayer.
Read morePOETRY: A mother stamps her feet
October 28, 2019A mother in San Jose sees a child in a cage and stamps her feet.
Read morePOETRY: In this Country
October 24, 2019"There is an enormous untapped power in the hands of the millions."
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