As the
incoming administration builds its agenda of attack on marginalized people, on
freedom of speech, on the earth itself, poetry will continue to be an essential
voice of resistance. Poets will speak out in solidarity, united
against hatred, systemic oppression, and violence and for justice, beauty,
and community.
In this
spirit, Split This Rock is offering its blog as a Virtual Open Mic. For the
rest of this frightening month, January of 2017, we invite you to send us poems
of resistance, power, and resilience.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, explicitly condones or implies a call for violence, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, explicitly condones or implies a call for violence, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
For
guidelines on how to submit poems for this call, visit the Call for Poems of
Resistance, Power & Resilience blog post.
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Unaugural Poem #1: UNPRESIDENTED
by Nancy Boutilier
I have been unpresidented.
In exchange for a man of
vision
and generosity
of good humor and
inclusivity,
I am handed
a man of carelessness
and ego
of cruel playground humor
and ego
of duplicity and studied
lies
and unleashed ego
who rates
no inauguration
that I will witness
and so I dedicate myself to
his
Unauguration
declare myself an Unaugural
poet
and I will witness
for now
for the future
four years
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