“When freedom is in danger, when you are asked, in one faked way or another, a shabby admonition, to leave your own humanity which includes the humanity of all, the alarm is extra-ordinary, America. Don’t you think so? You must respond, America. You must speak out, you must write.”
Contents
Foreword
Juan Felipe HerreraThe Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Peter GizziIn November We Inched Closer
Mary Jo BangAmerica (after Allen Ginsberg)
Craig Santos PerezIn Which Rising Inequality Eventually Triggers Countervailing Social Dislocations
Dara WierIn the Event of an Apocalypse, Be Ready to Die
Khadijah QueenThe American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act
Lucie Brock-BroidoWe’ll Go No More a Roving
Shane McCraeEnglish as a Second Language
Nathan Xavier OsorioLetter to a City under Siege
Carolyn ForchéInauguration Poem
Lynn MelnickConcord Grapes
Stephanie BurtYou the Recoil
Susan Briante#WTF
Maureen N. McLaneWomen Own a Violence Too
Amy KingDecember
Matthew ZapruderWatch Us Elocute
Marcus WickerBad Intelligence
Corey Van LandinghamSafe House
Solmaz SharifAmerica! America!
Ricardo MaldonadoA Guide to Usage: Mine
Monica YounI Want to Read at the White House
Joshua CloverExcuses
Carmen Giménez Smithfrom Atopia
Sandra SimondsFerguson
Major Jacksonfrom We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya KaminskyLinear Travel
Wendy XuDays of 2016
Ange MlinkoSat Down and Wept by Lake and Cloud Gear
Calvin BedientFilibuster to Delay Them All
Katie PetersonCredo
Andrew ZawackiGuantánamo
Jorie GrahamRiddle
Jericho BrownDisaster
Dorothea LaskyPoem of Hope, Almost at Equinox
Brenda HillmanTo Classes
Geoffrey G. O’Brienthe experiment
Juan Felipe Herrera
