Resistance Poetry 2020.08
3000 Poems
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4 min readSep 3, 2020
Sometime in August, the Medium odometer for the tag “Resistance Poetry” rolled over to 3000. I can’t say that all poems so tagged were published in RP or which one tipped the counter. But, that’s a lot of verse as commentary out there, and I want to thank all the poets who are using their voices to comment on culture and world events.
When I was growing up, musicians and songwriters were the people penning resistance poetry, their views seeping into my split-level suburbia through the radio, opening my mind to a larger reality.
Given the state of the world, I’ve been disappointed in the general lack of push back-from today’s lyricists, especially headliners.
And then this:
NEW POETS
Jessica Lee McMillan (8/20)
