Spahr's participation in the 2011 Occupy Movement is chronicled in her 2015 book "That Winter The Wolf Came". According to Spahr, she spent time in the encampments and participated in protests, although she and her son "never spent the night." Her work examines social issues, including the repercussions of the BP oil spill, the global impact of &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt;, capitalism, and climate change. She uses poetry as a mechanism to provide cultural recognition and representation to social movements and political actions.