Welcome to The Marbled Sigh‘s first ever anthology on Political Poems!
[Please note: many of these poems contain content relating to racism, sexism, SA, immigration, war, violence, etc.]
Raymond Louis Acevedo In Afternoon Sunlight
Rizwan Akhtar Drone Attacks in Pakistan
Daniel Barlekamp A Memo From the Humane Slaughter Association | Ossuary | An Unfortunate Incident | Jesus at the Border
Christopher Barry Excerpt From Weekend Poem #8 | I Lose Sleep Over the Discussion in a Department Meeting About How Students Don’t Write Enough Literary Analysis | Presidential Playlist
Robert Beveridge Bad Hombre | A Revision to the Healthcare Standard | Steven Miller Drinks His Morning Coffee
David Blumenfeld What Would I Do If You Killed My Child?
Brandon Bowman Activism
Katherine Breedan After Narges Mohammadi
Maudie Bryant Public Domain | Choice Cuts
Jim Burns Ahmaud Arbery | Life in the Time of Climate Change
Jeff Burt 1973
Angeliki Cintrón First Wave | Pink Slip
Paula Colangelo November 9, 2016/November 6, 2024 | No Birds
Barlow Crassmont Jimmy Lee and His Piece of Glee
Laura Dennis November 6, 2024: Not Surprised, Just Heartbroken
Lobna El Gammal On Gaza’s Beaches | On Seashells | On Parts
Fatima Elbadri Thawra
Adele Evershed How to Use a Teaspoon to Save Your Life
John Ganshaw Where Was the Outrage?
Samuel Goldsmith Why I Must Go | Road Rage
Virginia Grís Ahurani | From Far I Hear Dismembered Songs – A Broken Ghazal | Back Home; Visitor Status
Joanne Grumet Election Day
Mark Hendrickson 4 Haiku
Kiyoshi Hirawa Beautiful
Susanna Horng Yellowface
Shirlee Jellum War God
OP Jha Let Me Ask | A Land-Mark
Peter Kaczmarczyk Icarus Wings | You Were a Witness | I’d Sell My Body
Fin Keegan Unemployment | The Red Eye
Shontay Luna When I’m Well
Flavian Mark Lupinetti Proud Boy Blues | The CEO
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Marcus Amaker The Word ‘Supreme’ Has Been Canceled | Of Color | The America I Know Could Use a Good Cry
Carla M. Cherry Exodus | What Miracles Might We Behold? | Resolve
HE Fisher My Student Won’t Kill a Spotted Lanternfly | Obelisk | Left | Made in America
Jennifer Franklin The Gods Give Us Gifts to Groom Us | Dark Prayers During Two Wars
Nicole Caruso Garcia Draft | Dumbledore is Rolling in His Grave | Five-Star Coward | What It’s Like to Report
Strider Marcus Jones The Powder of Patriotism | The Blood That Makes Us Black | So It Goes | On the Other Side of the Room’s Window
Pamela Laskin Learning to Walk, Trump Elected, 2024 | Gone, Trump Election, 2024 | Drought, Trump Elected, 2024 | Disappearing Stars
Jennifer Martelli Revisitation | Dear Kamala Harris | Little Boat
Eisha Mason Do Birds Still Sing in Gaza
Janet McCann The Lesson
Prince McNally Graphic List Poem – She Manifesto
Stephen Mead Oh Absalom, Absalom
Apostol Mohamed What I Learned in World History | This Has Happened Before
Monique Ngozi Nri For JB and the Elders
Sumit Parikh Another School Shooting | New York Shines | Undocumented
Christine Penney The Cruel Radiance of What Is
Louhi Pohjola Book Burning | Kuinka voit tietää?: How Can You Know? | Tuona yönä: That Night
Charlotte M. Porter Insurgence | Tiny Cakes
John RC Potter Heavenly Bodies
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj My People’s Voices | The Innocents
Franzi Roesner Exit Poll
Yomalis Lourdes Rosario The Beginning of Social Protest | I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
Zoey Rose Ghost Species | Free Palestine
Sarah Rosenblatt Stigmatized
Julia Ross Things Said to the Carload of Queer Teens Who Prank Called the Christian Hotline, Pretending to be the Distraught Mother of a Child Who Recently Came Out as Gay | Because You Watched | #musicsaveslives | The Weather in Space
Lao Rubert Video Villanelle | Unleashed
Merryn Rutledge Here Remembering Araju, Killed at 17
PChristine Schmidt I am a Child of Rubik’s Cube
Zachary Scholl Sha’Ban Ahmed | Fire in the Sea
Brandon Shane My Brother Was Deployed
Kristy Snedden Trauma Shock | Feather Bolders
Noah Soltau Demigod’s Gotta Eat | This Machine Kills Fascists
Marjorie Tesser Chattel | After The Rape, They Spoke to Their Mothers | My Body, Diverted as Water by Stones
Tyler Thier 9mm | Nevada National Security Site | The Lake
M Benjamin Thorne ABCs of Democracy | Carnival of Dunces
Tim Tobin Power From the People
Tiffany Troy Product (Red) | On Accents
Maja Urukalo Bleeding Edge
Kevin Vallejo I Don’t Want to Forget
Melissa Wold Who Are These People
Y Kendall Three Black Men: This is Different | Noms de Loon | MAGA-Adjacent
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