Misrepresented People

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.

Contributors

Hanif Abdurraqib - Kaveh Akbar - MarIa Isabel Alvarez - Eloisa Amezcua - Nin Andrews

William Archila - Fatimah Asghar - Chaun Ballard - Zeina Hashem Beck - Bruce Bennett

Rosebud Ben-Oni - Brian Brodeur - Joel Brouwer - Nickole Brown - Tina Cane

Cortney Lamar Charleston - Jim Daniels - Kyle Dargan - Danielle Cadena Deulen - Natalie Diaz

Dante Di Stefano - celeste doaks - MartIn Espada - Joshua Jennifer Espinosa - Blas Falconer

Kate Falvey - Brian Fanelli - Ariel Francisco - Christine Gelineau - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Jennifer Givhan - Tony Gloeggler - Ruth Goring - Sonia Greenfield - George Guida

Luke Hankins - David Hernandez - Andrew Hudgins - Luther Hughes - Kenan Ince

Maria Melendez Kelson - Ruth Ellen Kocher - Dana Levin - Timothy Liu - Denise Low

George Ella Lyon - J. Michael Martinez - Shane McCrae - Sjohnna McCray - Erika Meitner

Rajiv Mohabir - Faisal Mohyuddin - Kamilah Aisha Moon - Abby E. Murray - Susan Nguyen

Matthew Olzmann - Annette Oxindine - Gregory Pardlo - Craig Santos Perez - Xandria Phillips

Kevin Prufer - Dean Rader - Stella Vinitchi Radulescu - Julian Randall - Camille Rankine

Alexandra Lytton Regalado - Alison C. Rollins - Alberto RIos - Liz Rosenberg - Nicole Santalucia

sam sax - Lauren Schmidt - Scherezade Siobhan - Raena Shirali - Clint Smith - Patricia Smith

Maggie Smith - Christian Teresi - Leah Tieger - Vincent Toro - Leah Umansky - Emily Vogel

Joe Weil - Jameka Williams - Phillip B. Williams - Jane Wong - Javier Zamora