num_pages: 204
description: A collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race gender identity and sexuality.Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put together an extraordinary list of poets taking a feminist stance against the new authority. What began as an informal collaboration of like-minded poetsto be released as a handbound chapbookhas grown into something far more substantial and ambitious: a fully fledged anthology of womens resistance with a portion of proceeds supporting Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.Representing the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism sexism and violence this collection unites powerful new writers performers and activists with established poets. Contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo Sandra Beasley Jericho Brown Mahogany L. Browne Danielle Chapman Tyehimba Jess Kimberly Johnson Jacqueline Jones LaMon Maureen N. McLane Joyce Peseroff Mary Ruefle Trish Salah Patricia Smith Anne Waldman and Rachel Zucker.
language: English
title: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism
publisher: OR Books