You might remember the May Day poetry feature last year, centered around remembrance and emotional release. This year, we thought probably everyone (at least those in the US) could do with some election-related self-expression. So we’re doing another poetry feature, this time centered on election day. I’m selfishly naming this one after what I’ve been told is my best podcast roundtable quote: “Rage is a positive emotion.” (Found in this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio.)
You can of course, however, write on whatever you’re feeling. Fear, grief, tenderness, hope. The idea is to get a snapshot of what it feels like to live in this time. It’s part of why anarchists have historically written poetry: to keep an emotional timeline of our history as well as an academic one.
Who’s ready to get angry? View all poems here.
Fall 2020 Poetry Feature
- Two Limericks, David Gross
- Untitled I, Hugh Crane
- Another Lost Comrade, Logan Marie Glitterbomb
- 2020 September 13, Jeff Popovich
- Malison Against Tyrants, Fascists, and Enslavers, Damian Stephens
- No TERFS, No Patriarchy, Prax
- April 28, 2020, Melissa Minkoff
- Forged in Fire, Alex McHugh
- Creatio Ex Nihilo, Can Standke
- Daugters of the American Revolution, Laurel Palmer
- Isn’t Being Doomed the Whole Point?, John Harbour Devlin
- An Arch Why, Josef Pritchard
- yr highness, John Harbour Devlin
- Monster, Prax
- 2020 September 8, Jeff Popovich
