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 • María 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 • Martín 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 • 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 Ríos • Liz Rosenberg

Nicole Santalucia • sam sax • Lauren Marie 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