What saves us: poems of empathy and outrage in the age of Trump

Preface: The filthy presidentiad / Martín Espada --

Smile / Elizabeth Alexander --

Refugee women / Julia Alvarez --

Binge --

How Nazis --

Subterranean inner redneck blues / Doug Anderson --

Vending --

They roll the tarp / Naomi Ayala --

Ghazal for Jim Foley #5: what comes home / Ben Balthaser --

The face I wore / Sean Bates --

Trumpcare --

I knew I wasn't poor / Jan Beatty --

Failed spells / Richard Blanco --

Dreaming a wall --

Complaint of el Río Grande / Tara Betts --

From ten patients and another --

The chart --

The good doctor / Rafael Campo --

The world that the shooter left us / Cyrus Cassells --

The problem with me is the problem with you / Hayan Charara --

The school of logic --

The school of morning & letters / Chen Chen --

Grievance / Brian Clements --

Crack the whip --

My two aunts / Jim Daniels --

On hearing news of another shot black man --

Capitalism / Kwame Dawes --

Check list / Chard deNiord --

American dream, 2018 --

Cradle song / Dante DiStefano --

Now I pray / Kathy Engel --

Letter to my father / Martín Espada --

Borderline --

The altar / George Evans --

Self-portrait as mango / Tarfia Faizullah --

The boatman --

Mourning / Carolyn Forché --

Puertopia / Denice Frohman --

Poem for the poorest country in the Western hemisphere --

Shithole / Danielle Legros-Georges --

Daddy, we called you --

I want to write a poem to celebrate / Maria Mazziotti Gillan --

You are who I love / Aracelis Girmay --

The hands that wanted / Ruth Goring --

The plan / Adam Grabowski --

On confinement / Torrin Greathouse --

Ars política: how to make art --

Three hundred years before these, three hundred years after / Laurie Ann Guerrero

A prophecy of Amos / Donald Hall --

Another year / Sam Hamill --

To a commencement of scoundrels / Samuel Hazo --

Field guide ending in a deportation / Marcelo Hernández Castillo --

We are remarkably loud not masked / Juan Felipe Herrera --

On the fifth day --

Let them not say / Jane Hirschfield --

Georgia on his mind --

At the access / Everett Hoagland --

Here in a state of tectonic tension --

Visions of labor / Lawrence Joseph --

A prayer for workers --

The mushroom gatherers / Yusef Komunyakaa --

If it weren't for bad ideas, i'd have no ideas at all / Dorianne Laux --

Skinology --

Invisible places of refuge --

The Motherland / Adrian C. Louis --

I give you my heart = Os doy mi corazón / Ricardo Maldonado --

The girl who learned to sing in crow --

Ghost --

Mexico / Paul Mariani --

Inauguration day, 2017 / Demetria Martínez --

Mykilladoreher --

Framework / Paul Martínez Pompa --

Don't let me die in Disneyland / Julio Marzán --

White girl interrogates her own heart again --

The sacrament of penance --

The sacrament of hope after despair / Marty McConnell --

Rage bracelet --

When dividing the unbelievable by the undeniable / Leslie McGrath --

Gossip is forbidden --

Fake news / Richard Michelson --

Still life in black --

What do they do? --

Bunting and the art of non-violence / E. Ethelbert Miller --

Fannie Lou Hamer --

Shared plight / Kamilah Aisha Moon --

Why Bruce Lee is sad --

Minneapolis Public / David Mura --

Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds --

On confessionalism --

Dolores, maybe / John Murillo --

Waitress in a small-town seaside tavern --

Overheard proselytizing dreadlocked man's Ghazal / Maria Nazos --

Honor guard / Marilyn Nelson --

Seeing his face --

Gate A-4 / Naomi Shihab Nye

Driving to York Prison in a Thunderbird / Cynthia Dewi Oka --

As yet untitled: a seasonal suite / Brenda Marie Osbey --

The light (we all came from somewhere else) --

Ghazal: America the beautiful / Alicia Ostriker --

Brother Lo on the prison industrial complex / Willie Perdomo --

Not one more refugee death / Emmy Pérez --

Illegal with only hope --

Way late December 2016 / Marge Piercy --

For want of water / Sasha Pimentel --

From an explanation of America / Robert Pinsky --

If pit bulls had a justice system it'd be belly rubs --

Cotto the pit bull of Borinquín / Gabriel Ramírez --

Breakfast conversation with my oldest son --

A poem for the man who asked me: where are your motherhood poems? / Luivette Resto --

At every family party where the grown-ups drank too much / Peggy Robles-Alvarado --

Heavy blue veins: Watts, 1959 / Luis J. Rodríguez --

The mill of grief --

The only El Dorado that is real: retranslating Neruda / William Pitt Root --

At the tribunals / Patrick Rosal --

For Zella Ziona / Joseph Ross --

All extinction is gradual at first / Nicholas Samaras --

Ars poetica --

A tree in Perth Amboy / Ruth Irupé Sanabria --

The social worker's advice / Lauren Schmidt --

Lucky / Tim Seibles --

Letter to my Suegra, from Artesia, New Mexico / Katherine DiBella Seluja --

From crown decline / Don Share --

Sometimes I wish I felt the side effects / Danez Smith --

MAGA --

Speak now, or forever. hold your peace --

Saheed's silver gun / Patricia Smith --

Campesino --

Christmas in East Los Angeles / Gary Soto --

It burns --

Ezra learns to ride / Mark Turcotte --

At Lowe's home improvement center --

Ajal / Brian Turner --

The ends of the world --

The new dark ages / Chase Twichell --

A history of morning clouds and contrails --

Cracking 100 / Pamela Uschuk --

Self-portrait of America as a revival / Elisabet Velasquez --

Manifesto after the storm / Richard Villar --

The gift / Ocean Vuong --

I am sorry Diane Di Prima / George Wallace --

Blackberry wine --

Prayer for the city / Afaa Weaver --

What saves us --

War story --

Wade Park VA / Bruce Weigl --

In a time of war --

Establishment --

This straw and manure world / Eleanor Wilner --

Death abroad --

Salvadoran woman on Fillmore Street / Daisy Zamora.