Anthologies that Rock and Resist

The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, focuses on some of the most exciting Black women writing today, breaking up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserting the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. In Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence compiled by Brian Clements, poems focusing on the crisis of gun violence in America are followed by a response from activists, politicians, and survivors. Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, brings together the most subversive, gritty, moving, and courageous writing from the U.S. queer community in recent political times.