poetry
Silence and terror: Analyzing poems by Genevieve Taggard and Richard Wright
September 16, 2025Both poems explore social conflict, challenging the reader to confront systems of oppression, arguing that neutrality in the face of injustice is impossible.
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Analyzing Edwin Rolfe’s poem ‘Unit Assignment’
September 5, 2025The poem conveys an atmosphere and mood in which the work of community organizing is elevated as an event worthy of a poetic theme.
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Poem: ‘Traitors of Democracy’
August 28, 2025America’s storm will soon foster disorder and delusions.
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‘Dust In Los Angeles’: A poem on the resistance to ICE raids
June 26, 2025Writer and community activist David Trujillo pens a poem speaking to the recent ICE raids and military occupation in Los Angeles, CA.
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Roque Dalton: poética de la ternuridad
May 17, 2025Los versos pasaron a ser un refugio contra los espectros de la ira, la creación artística un oasis que adversaba los destellos de la furia, manantial que refrescaba la sed de esperanza, ungüento de alivio en...
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