WR153: All Poetry is Political (Bozek)

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Mass Incarceration

Racial Injustice

Citizenship/Immigrant Experience

FOUR HUNDRED SOULS
10 poems, one at the end of every 40 years

• "Upon Arrival" by Jericho Brown
• "Mama, Where You Keep Your Gun?" by Phillip B. Williams
• "Before Revolution" by Morgan Parker
• "Not Without Some Instances of Uncommon Cruelty" by Justin Phillip Reed
• "Remembering the Albany 3" by Ishmael Reed
• "Compromise" by Donika Kelly
• "John Wayne Niles Ermias Joseph Asghedom" by Mahogany L. Browne
•  "Coiled and Unleashed" by Patricia Smith
• "And the Record Repeats" by Chet’la Sebree
• "American Abecedarian" by Joshua Bennett

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