Political Poetry

Count Me: An Ode to Liberty

Robin Koerner | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Right, Constitution, Liberty, Poem, Political Commentary, Conservatives, Liberals, Constitutional Rights, Political Poem, Political Poetry, Politics News

Left and Right and Right and Left / Have left America bereft / Of liberty, its founding light. / Christians, Liberals speak of peace / Until they hold the nation's leash, / And send its youth to fight.

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God Give Us Men

Al Checchi | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Political Leadership, Leadership, Politics, Poetry, Political Poetry, Al Checchi, Politics News

During these difficult times, as the holiday season approaches and we contemplate the forthcoming national elections, the words of Josiah Gilbert Holland penned over a century ago speak to our shared desires for able and worthy leadership.

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Poetry and the National Defense

Kim Roberts | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Literature, September 11, Kathi Morrison-Taylor, Beltway Poetry Review, Poems, 9/11, Bomb Pop, September 11 Anniversary, Holly Karapetkova, Poetry, Political Poetry, Good Humor, DC News

Ten years after 9/11, Washington, D.C. still holds its defensive crouch. How could we help but find this subject creeping into our literature?

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The Poetry Of Revolution

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt Revolution, Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi Tunisia, Poetry Revolution, Tunisia, Poetry, Egypt, Tunisia Revolution, Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi, Tunisia Protests, Percy Shelley, Political Poetry, Egypt Protests 2011, Healthy Living News

If you have any doubts as to the power of a great poet's witnessing, you need only look at the impact of Al-Shabi's century-old words on Tunisia, and on Egypt and beyond.

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Poetry And Politics: What Role Should Poetry Play?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry Politics, Poems, Protest, Beat Poetry, Political Writing, Poetry, Poem, Political Poetry, Books News

Last week's images of mounted policemen charging the protesters around Parliament Square evoked multiple memories: the poll tax riots in John Major's ...

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Blowback

John O'Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chalmers Johnson, Empire, Political Poetry, Politics News

We owe the way we know the world to school-masters droning over the map of the day, blurbing stories of how empty space gets magically replaced wi...

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If Bad Turns Worse -- a Rhyming Rant

Jim Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Goldman Sachs, Predictions, Milton Friedman, Rhymes, Political Poetry, Comedy News

What if Goldman changes terms? / If "bad" turns worse, the nation squirms. / And what will new predictions do / To you and yours? Well, here's a clue:

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"Effing Retards" -- a Rhyming Rant

Jim Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Base, Rahm Emanuel, Effing Retards, Political Satire, Political Humor, Political Poetry, Politics News

Obama joked that when Rahm lost His middle finger... what a cost: Young Rahm was briefly mute, done in! But... Rahm's other middle finger has Been l...

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Paranoia Is Perennial -- a Poem

Jim Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Poetry, Birthers, Politics, Crazy Politicians, Political Satire, Paranoid Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Elizabeth Warren, Politics News

"He's a Socialist Muslim / Born in Kenya! / He's a Communist Muslim!" / And then when ya / Think you've heard it all / Glenn Beck starts to scrawl

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America's Most Prominent Emerging Poets Respond to the Obama Administration

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg asked one hundred of the best-known emerging American poets to respond with a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days. The resulting anthology is very revealing.

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Voices of Protest: The Iranian Word

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

There is an old saying in Persian, that every Iranian has written at least one line of poetry in their lifetime -- one can only imagine how many millions of lines have been written this summer alone.

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