Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America, Paperback

The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time when large swaths of the nation, and of the world, have succumbed to a reality television ontology, the poems collected in this volume offer the terra firma of imaginative empathy only available to us through poetry. This anthology contains work from a variety of aesthetic stances, from poets whose personal backgrounds reflect the vibrant multiplicity of our democratic vistas at their most resplendent. These voices counter alternative facts and fake news with the earned communion and the restorative utterance of the lyric and of the narrative. Proceeds from this anthology will be donated to The National Immigration Law Center.ContributorsHanif Abdurraqib - Kaveh Akbar - Maria Isabel Alvarez - Eloisa Amezcua - Nin AndrewsWilliam Archila - Fatimah Asghar - Chaun Ballard - Zeina Hashem Beck - Bruce BennettRosebud Ben-Oni - Brian Brodeur - Joel Brouwer - Nickole Brown - Tina CaneCortney Lamar Charleston - Jim Daniels - Kyle Dargan - Danielle Cadena Deulen - Natalie DiazDante Di Stefano - celeste doaks - Martin Espada - Joshua Jennifer Espinosa - Blas FalconerKate Falvey - Brian Fanelli - Ariel Francisco - Christine Gelineau - Maria Mazziotti GillanJennifer Givhan - Tony Gloeggler - Ruth Goring - Sonia Greenfield - George GuidaLuke Hankins - David Hernandez - Luther Hughes - Kenan Ince - Maria Melendez KelsonRuth Ellen Kocher - Dana Levin - Timothy Liu - Denise Low - George Ella LyonJ. Michael Martinez - Shane McCrae - Sjohnna McCray - Erika Meitner - Rajiv MohabirFaisal Mohyuddin - Kamilah Aisha Moon - Abby E. Murray - Susan Nguyen - Matthew OlzmannAnnette Oxindine - Gregory Pardlo - Craig Santos Perez - Xandria Phillips - Kevin PruferDean Rader - Stella Vinitchi Radulescu - Julian Randall - Camille RankineAlexandra Lytton Regalado - Alison C. Rollins - Alberto Rios - Liz RosenbergNicole Santalucia - sam sax - Lauren Marie Schmidt - Scherezade SiobhanRaena Shirali - Clint Smith - Patricia Smith - Maggie Smith - Christian TeresiLeah Tieger - Vincent Toro - Leah Umansky - Emily Vogel - Joe WeilJameka Williams - Phillip B. Williams - Jane Wong - Javier Zamora