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National Poetry Month: Poetry & Activism

Poetry has often been used as a form of activism and protest, giving a voice to communities that have historically been silenced. For National Poetry Month this year, we're highlighting poetry that shines a light on various forms of oppression and calls on readers to push for radical change and resistance.

Chapel Hill Public Library

15 items

  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016] — 808.8193 Shar
  • Resistencia

    Poems of Protest and Revolution

    BookPortland, Oregon : Tin House, [2020] — 808.8199 Resi
  • BookNew York : Random House, [1978] — 811.54 Ange
  • Ink Knows No Borders

    Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

    BookNew York : Seven Stories Press, [2019] — Y 811.608 Ink
  • BookNew York : Grove Press, 2018 — 811.54 Myle
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019] — 811.6 Kami
  • Of Poetry & Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] — 811.008 Of
  • African American Poetry

    250 Years of Struggle & Song

    BookNew York : Library of America, 2020 — 821.08 Afri
  • Borderlands

    the New Mestiza = La Frontera

    Anzaldúa, Gloria
    BookSan Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, c2012 — 811.54 Anza