Contents
Foreword by Lisa Russ Spaar
Editors’ Notes
Who We Are, What Is Ours: An Introduction by Denise Sweet
Prologue by Andrea Scarpino
Louise Bogan | Resolve
Rita Dove | Rosa
Act: “In the face of hate, silence is deadly Apathy will be interpreted as acceptance—by the perpetrators, the public, and—worse—the victims If left unchallenged, hate persists and grows”
Rita Dove | Trayvon, Redux
Crystal Valentine | I Do Not Trust People Who Hang American Flags on Their Front Porches
Kimberly Blaeser | Of the many ways to say: Please Stand
Oscar Mireles | History Lesson
Rob Hardy | The Arc
Mary Weems | “A Piece of American History”
Karen Kovacik | Adagio
Wendy Vardaman | mend in progress
Zora Howard | Red White and Blue Seuss
Carla Christopher | A System Cannot Fail
Carla Christopher | Reclaimed
Joel Lipman | not telling the truth
Unite: “Call a friend or coworker Organize allies from churches, schools, clubs, and other civic groups Create a diverse coalition Include children, police, and the media Gather ideas from everyone, and get everyone involved”
Kimberly Blaeser | Sacred Stone Camp
Rob Hardy | My Mother’s Pussy Hat
Carson Borbely | sophia tells me
Cavana I.O. Faithwalker | Evangelist
Rob Rolfe | Heat
Rob Rolfe | The Hole
Meredith Holmes | The Real World
Karla Huston | Nogales, Arizona
Howard D Paap | Raising the Flag
Kimberly Blaeser | Bawaajige
Joyce Sutphen | I Say Amen
Laren McClung | For Ibrahim Qashoush
Joel Lipman | Calligraphy
Support Victims: “Let victims know you care Support them with comfort and protection”
Kimberly Blaeser | Regarding the Care of Homeless Children
Rick Kearns | Tecoani and Alejandro
Aliki Barnstone | Monochrome Prison
Karen Kovacik | Your Neck: A History
Rebecca Zseder | Nameless
Mary Weems | Gray Note
William Trowbridge | Mercy
Barbara Buckman Strasko | Esperancia
Rob Rolfe | No Details
Norbert Krapf | The Potter’s Hand
Russell Thorburn | I Return to the Surface of the Earth Wearing My Miner’s Helmet with Its Third Eye
Ellie Schoenfeld | Some Things I’ve Noticed about Jesus
David Jones | North Star
damian lopes | our home on native land
Joel Lipman | BeriBeri
Do Your Homework: “An informed campaign improves its effectiveness”
Donald Hall | Bacteria
Tony Pena | Bully Bliss
Sarah Sadie (Busse) | She Is So Fragile, This Figure, Set Here to Stand
Joyce Sutphen | Black and White Photographs
M L Liebler | American Psalm: Viola Liuzzo—American Hero
Kevin Stein | The Narcissistic Poet’s Mad-Lib
Kevin Stein | Postcards of the Homefront
Yolanda Wisher | the ballad of laura nelson
George Elliott Clarke | The Progress of Servitude
George Elliott Clarke | The True History of Jesse Williams
James Armstrong | Pulling Out
Larry Jensen | Burial Ground
Emilio DeGrazia | Visitations
Peter Meinke | Carina
damian lopes | la mémorial des martyrs français de la déportation
Ken McCullough | Patriotism
Howard D Paap | Signs of the Times
Joel Lipman | mortality varies
Create an Alternative: “Every act of hatred should be met with an act of love and unity Hold a unity rally or parade to draw media attention away from hate”
Carla Christopher | Thirty-Six-Thirty
Carla Christopher | Why Our Boys Create Their Own Scars: A Mother’s Lament
Patricia J Goodrich | Holstein and Stones
Fred Wah | Idle No More: Dec 29/2012
Christopher Bursk | Confiscated Weapons
Christopher Bursk | Close Your Eyes, I Tell the Men
George Bowering | Social Justice
Naomi Long Madgett | Dixie Land Blues
Crystal Valentine | I Whip My Hair Back and Forth
Crystal Valentine | We Are Born with Our Hands Bleeding
Cavana I O Faithwalker | Devil’s Plague
John B Lee | Beyond the last sandbar
Rick Kearns | The Geo-Politics of Uptown Skunks
Joyce Sutphen | Eleanor Beardsley in Paris
Rita Dove | Lady Freedom Among Us
Joel Lipman | make them think I am king
Speak Up: “Hate must be exposed and denounced An informed and unified community is the best defense against hate”
Jim Ferris | Comprehensive List / of All Benefits / to Being Disabled / in Contemporary America
Rebecca Zseder | Voices
Christine Howey | I Was a Male Impersonator for 40 Years
Christine Howey | The Female Circumspection Act
Craig Czury | Let The Poets In
Pauletta Hansel | Passage
Anna Yin | Thirteen Ways of Looking at Smog
George Kalamaras | For All the Russian Wolfhounds—the Borzoi—Slaughtered During the Revolution, 1917
George Kalamaras | Pack-A-Day Dog
Roger Nash | The Shell-Shocked Rocking Chair
Anna Yin | Dance of the Old Year, 2016
Patricia Clark | West of Syria
Otter Jung-Allen | The Man on the Train or, What I Have Been Named Into
Christine Howey | I’m Gonna Get the DTs over DT in the DC
Marvin Bell | Little Napoleon / or: Foreign Policy
Heather H Thomas | Atonement
Pauletta Hansel | November 10, 2016
Joel Lipman | how ma / ny flags / were too / many fla / gs for / the dead
Lobby Leaders: “Elected offi cials and other community leaders can be important allies [in the fight against hate]”
Rita Dove | Freedom Ride
Marvin Bell | The Book of the Dead Man (Desperate in America)
Andrea Scarpino | There Was a Man [excerpts]
Fred Wah | Re Politics of Location
Siduri Beckman | Women’s March
Joel Lipman | George Popham
Look Long Range: “Expand your community’s comfort zones so you can learn and live together”
Wendy Vardaman | @ChazenArtUW at the First Folio Exhibit the day after a woman loses the presidency like a heart balloon ripped from her fist
Kimberly Blaeser | Tribal Mound, Earth Sutra
Tom Cull | After Rivers
Dennis Hinrichsen | [short film with gun and flame]
Samuel Hazo | Signs of Life in a Sundown City
Sue MacLeod | It’s okay if we wreck this planet
L S Klatt | Silo
damian lopes | kandahar time
Martin Achatz | Waiting for Independence Day Fireworks 2013
Aliki Barnstone | Fire on the Waters
Joel Lipman | Code Word
Teach Tolerance: “Bias is learned early, often at home Schools can offer lessons in tolerance and acceptance Host a diversity and inclusion day on campus Reach out to young people who may be susceptible to hate group propaganda and prejudice”
Siduri Beckman | Trouble Writing
Karla Huston | Tempting Mystery
Thomas O’Connell | Foreshadowing Means Nothing to Us Kids
Yolanda Wisher | diversity day
Yolanda Wisher | blues & vision for PS whatever
Thomas Leduc | Paper Dolls
Samuel Hazo | For Which It Stands
Larry Jensen | Th is Great Lake Town
Rodney Torreson | Th e Brooder House Rabbits
Liz Zetlin | Ground Truthing on her twentieth day
Dig Deeper: “Tolerance, fundamentally, is a personal decision It comes from an attitude that is learnable and embraceable: a belief that every voice matters, that all people are valuable, that no one is ‘less than’ Look inside yourself for prejudices and
David Helwig | Walt Whitman on the TTC
Sarah Sadie (Busse) | A Poem Does Invite
Deborah Cooper | Talking to Strangers
Liz Zetlin | The Warnings
Yolanda Wisher | blues for PS whatever 2
Joel Lipman | mistakes
Sandra Fees | After Dr Bonganjalo Goba’s Death
Shari Wagner | The farm wife receives a certified letter
Sandra Fees | Keeping Time at the Family Detention Center
Sandra Fees | Asylum Thwarted
Pauletta Hansel | On Grief: November 2016
Jim Ferris | Contagious
Howard D Paap | A Life Reborn
Shari Wagner | The Rhoads Family
John B Lee | He tells me
George Elliott Clarke | À Rimini
Sheila Packa | Dialectics
Sarah Sadie (Busse) | If Only
Laurence Sansone | 20 Percent
Joel Lipman | inflammatory conditions
What Can You Do?: “Pick up the phone Call friends and colleagues Host a neighborhood or community meeting Speak up in church Suggest some action Sign a petition Attend a vigil Lead a prayer Report acts of hate-fueled vandalism, as a neighborhood or a comm
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