Women of Resistance (eBook)

DANIELLE BARNHART and IRIS MAHAN are the founding editors of Village of Crickets, a leading literary website. Danielle Barnhart is the recipient of the 2015 Donald Everett Axinn Award in Poetry, and coordinates programming for Adelphi University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Iris Mahan is a graduate of Adelphi University’s MFA Program, where she was the recipient of The Robert Muroff Scholarship in Creative Writing. She spends her days at The Center for Fiction (New York City), and her nights translating and writing poetry.

Part I:
Kiss Me, Kate - Sandra Beasley
Female - Kimberly Johnson
The Children's Chorus - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Civil Rights - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
The Ride Home - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Over Mate - Ruth Irupe Sanabria
Image - James Allen Hall
Wedding Dress - James Allen Hall
Good & Evil Shoes - Jan Beatty
Getting a UTI - Laura Theobald
Untitled - Laura Theobald
Rib - Hope Wabuke
Skin II: Firebird - Hope Wabuke
Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits - Rachel Zucker
And Still I Speak of It - Rachel Zucker

Part II:

January, after El Niño - Ryka Aoki
13 - Aracelis Girmay
To the Husband - Aracelis Girmay
Elegy with a White Shirt - Cynthia Dewi Oka
Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion - Joyce Peseroff
A Woman and Her Job - Elizabeth Clark Wessel
That's Where You Disappear - Monika Zobel
Of the Swan - Jericho Brown
The Legend of Big and Fine - Jericho Brown
Ladies Weekend in Brooklyn - Danielle Chapman
To the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job - Elizabeth Acevedo
dowry - Safia Elhillo
zihour - Safia Elhillo
after - Safia Elhillo

Part III:

If 2017 was a Poem Title - Mahogany L. Browne
Heritage - Kaveh Akbar
Poem for Suheir Hammad - Trish Salah
Ode to the Pantsuit - Lauren Alleyne
Madame X-- - Lauren Alleyne
Matriot Acts - Anne Waldman
Am Ha'aretz - Rosebud Ben Oni
Stanzas for the Resistance - Todd Hearon
The March - Achy Obejas
Meanwhile - Maureen McLane
Heidenröslein - Maureen McLane
Hagar in the Wilderness - Tyehimba Jess
To the breasts when it's over-- - Ellen Hagen
To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh
was a wilderness blooming-- - Ellen Hagen
Kiss of the Sun - Mary Ruefle
Lucky Ladies Sestina - Jill McDonough
Accident, Mass. Ave - Jill McDonough