Category: revolution
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New poetry chapbook! American Campesino (15 poems for a pandemic)
Just published by Editorial Xingao! American Campesino 15 poems for a pandemic | 15 poemas para una pandemia Poems by Rubén Rangel Cover art, “La huelguista,” by Pedro Rodríguez (Saddle-stapled chapbook: 28 pages; August 2022) ISBN: 978-0-9910346-0-4 EDITOR’S NOTE: Chicano poet and radical community & working class organizer, Rubén Rangel, delivers compact and crystalline poems…
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Paradise under construction | A note on “Building Socialism” RPB poetry anthology
All poets, good or bad, with or without anti-capitalist politics, weak or strong anti-racist and anti-war practices, believe in and want paradise on earth. Paradise has different names according to the language your heart speaks. Paradise is where the beloved and I pour our souls into each other. Paradise is where I harmonize with the…
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Poetic justice: A world of human rights
We want human rights because… No human being is illegal, No human being is a minority, No human being is undocumented Everyone has a story to tell, a history to be made, a dream to fulfill, a life to live to the fullest, to the deepest end of time Everyone has the right to grow…
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Justicia poética: Un mundo de derechos humanos
Queremos derechos humanos porque… Ningún ser humano es ilegal Ningún ser humano es una minoría Ningún ser humano es indocumentado. Todos tenemos algo que decir, una historia para hacer, un sueño para realizar, una vida para vivir plenamente, hasta la profundidad del tiempo Todos/todas tenemos el derecho a envejecer, vivir en ternura, amara abiertamente, trabajar…
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Day Four 2019 | The cellphone baby
The cellphone baby criesbewildered by human voicesUnsteady in our armsThe cellphone screen filled with rhythmic red ocean wavesand a toenail moon calms her for a breath or twoHer skinher hearingher sighther touchher hairher bodyis wirelessher ancestors are blockedher father is in jailher mother needs a breakher grandfather disappeared years agoand her grandmother holds her tightcomforts…
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Call to poets to sign the “Open Letter to Worldwide Leaders”
Dear poet: Would you sign out letter. Please include your name and country in the email. Email your signature to: worldpoetrymovement@gmail.com All the best, Fernando Rendón (*) OPEN LETTER TO WORLDWIDE LEADERS In the name of the poets, writers, intellectuals and artists, and of all men and women that are in the cause of global peace,…
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Jack Hirschman: The way it is & 3 Arcanes
THE WAY IT IS J.W. told me tonight that Mitch the Chippewa died two nights ago. “Over-exposure and drink. 39 years old.” “And he had a bad ticker,” said Gyzmo’s friend, coming into the Bar mainly to whisper some stash of a deal into J.W.’s ear. The Tenderloin Times says 108 or…
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Abecedario de las liberaciones
Autonomia sí Automotores no. Besos sí Bombas no Corazones sí Corporaciones no Che sí, siempre Chiónes no Datura sí Dictadura no Elotes sí Europeizantes no Familias sí Fascismo no Guadalupe sí Guerras no Heliotropes sí Helicópteros no Isla cubana sí Imperialismo no Jacarandas sí Jacales no Koatzín sí KKK no Lágrimas sí Lastimadores no Mujeres…
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arnoldogarcía | WINTERINGS
In winter, my dreams dream themselves, the stories play on our beds And life is life again making love to procreate spring… Every season has her nights and days moons and disasters Every season depends on winter to rest, to recover our voices, To renew the roots of the spring that cannot be stopped:…
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arnoldo garcía: rebel/rebelaya | Based on “Bi-d-ro-he” poem.
Shahed Chowdhury performs the poem “Bi-d-ro-he” by Kazi Nazrul Islam. “Bi-d-ro-he” means rebel. Here’s my version based on Chowdhury’s explanation: “Rebel/Rebelaya” Rebel Rebel Rebel Rebelaya Rebel Rebel Rebel Rebelaya Your mind is taller than the Himalayas Himalaya Himalaya Himalaya You’re smaller than the mind of the Rebel Rebel Rebel/Rebelaya The rebel sits atop the thrones of gods…
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