Top stories published by Resistance Poetry in May of 2020

Top Stories published by Resistance Poetry in May of 2020

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2020

May

Anangsha Alammyan in Resistance Poetry

May 13, 2020

What Does Sadness Sound Like?

Poetry in free verse

Ryan J. Petteway in Resistance Poetry

May 29, 2020

Fragments On Police Killings, Humanity, and Poetry as Praxis/Testimony

(Or, Dear White People, Your…

1 response

Max Smith in Resistance Poetry

May 23, 2020

The War on Black Bodies

The perception of black bodies in everyday spaces

3 responses

Meg in Resistance Poetry

May 1, 2020

Resistance Poetry 2020.04

Covid-19 II: May Day

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over…

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Carmen Fong, MD in Resistance Poetry

May 6, 2020

Ten Bodies

Reflection from a surgeon during COVID-19

Ten people died last night.
Ten people in body bags piled up
Like dirty rags on top of
The forty-six others —
In the back of a refrigerator truck behind the hospital.
Steel heart as I might, I cannot
Lose sight…

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Ryan J. Petteway in Resistance Poetry

May 1, 2020

FRUIT//Labor

(A Poem for May Day)

From the Upon the Body collection: Poems of/to a Black Social Epi in the…

Nathalie E. Amazan in Resistance Poetry

May 15, 2020

When we get there

Question everything
Struggle in the present for the world we wish to live in
accept tragedy as inevitable
like the laughter of…

Jessica Gupta in Resistance Poetry

May 11, 2020

Miranda Warning for a Citizen’s Arrest

You have the right to remain silent.

Adeyele Adeniran in Resistance Poetry

May 24, 2020

origin

a poem

this is to all my sisters
who bled before
it was their time

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Suzanne V. Tanner, M.B.A. in Resistance Poetry

May 12, 2020

The Creep Walking in My Direction

Why this woman pulled the plug and charged forward, unencumbered at…

These were the top 10 stories published by Resistance Poetry in May of 2020. You can also dive into daily archives for May of 2020 by using the calendar at the top of this page.