In a poem perhaps written in prison in 1917. Chaplin calls out the “cowed and the meek” who “see the world’s great anguish and its wrong and dare not speak!”
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Ralph Chaplin’s Poetic Call to Action
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Responding to the Musk-Trump Coup
In response to attempted takeovers such as Elon Musk’s, poet Ilya Kaminsky urges us to wake up and resist. Anne Lamott suggests some of the forms this can take.
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Poems for Resisting Trump
New York columnist Roger Cohen suggests two poems for resisting Trumpism: “if” and “Harlem.”
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Despite Trump, “The Land Holds Us Still”
On this one-month anniversary of the 2016 election, I look back at two authors who meditated on what to do next immediately after hearing the news. Terry Tempest Williams looks to nature while Zadie Smith looks to the music to be found in multiethnic harmony.
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