On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol in an act of civil disobedience to protest Arizona’s SB 1070. Moved by the students’ actions, that same day Francisco X. Alarcón responded by writing a poem in Spanish and English titled “Para Los Nueve del Capitolio/ For the Capitol Nine,” which he dedicated to the students. The students replied to the poem with a collective online message. To share with the world what was taking place, Alarcón then created a Facebook page called “Poets Responding to SB 1070” and posted the poem, launching a powerful and dynamic forum for social justice.
Since then, more than three thousand original contributions by poets and artists from around the globe have been posted to the page. Poetry of Resistance offers a selection of these works, addressing a wide variety of themes, including racial profiling, xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared identity, and much more. Contributors include distinguished poets such as Francisco Aragón, Devreaux Baker, Sarah Browning, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, Sharon Dubiago, Martín Espada, Genny Lim, Pam Uschuk, and Alma Luz Villanueva.
Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights. Each poem shows the heartfelt dedication these writers and artists have to justice in a world that has become larger than borders. Poetry of Resistance is a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.

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edited by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez; foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera

Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez (Editors),Juan Felipe Herrera (Foreword)

Alarcón, Francisco X.; Galván Rodríguez, Odilia; Herrera, Juan Felipe

United States, United States of America

Camino del Sol, Tucson, 2016

1, PS, 2016

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Chiefly in English with several poems in Spanish; some poems in English and Spanish, and one poem in Irish.

The Book Is A Timely Response Via Verse To The Current Political Climate Of Arizona, Though What It Ultimately Argues Is That These Injustices Have Always Been Taking Place: Sb 1070 Is Simply Its Most Recent Manifestation--provided By Publisher. Foreword : They Carry Butterflies In Their Hands / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Introduction / Francisco X. Alarcón And Odilia Galván Rodríguez -- Para Los Nueve Del Capitolio = For The Capitol Nine / Invocation / Borderless Compassion / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Portions / Joann Anglin -- Poem With A Phrase Of Isherwood / Francisco Aragón -- End Of An Affair / Cathy Arellano -- Nestorius Niños Y Niñas = Our Children / Jorge Tetl Argueta -- Tattoo Sb 1070 / Adrián Arias -- Looking Through Chain Link At Mcallen Station / Víctor Ávila -- La Regla De Los Ladrones = The Law Of Thieves / Avotcja -- Reasonable Suspicion : The Conqueror's Dream / Devreaux Baker -- Lightning On A Black Night Over The Chuska Mountains / Kristopher Barney -- Slaughters And Shifts And Migrations : Arizona / Virginia Barrett -- Listen Child / Esmeralda Bernal -- The Flag Of Touch / Sarah Browning -- Border Ghost Of Sonora / Awakening At Night / Carmen Calatáyud --^ Hoy Mujeres Y Hombres = Today Women And Men / Xánath Caraza -- On The Border, We Dream / Héctor Carbajal -- Niño Traga Fuegos / Elizabeth Cazessús -- Olmecan Eyes / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Del Puente Al Arco / Ana Chig -- Reconsider The Lilies = Considerad De Nuevo Las Azucenas / Jabez W. Churchill -- The New West / Antoinette Nora Claypoole -- Sonnet For Police Officers Charged With Enforcing Sb 1070 / Karen S. Córdova -- To Be A Pocha Or Not To Be / Iris De Anda -- Capitol Poetry / Nephtalí De León -- Your America, My Turtle Island / Susan Deer Cloud -- Before The World Wakes / Two Missing Men, One White, One Brown, One Rich, One Not / So Rich / Elena Díaz Björquist -- There Is A Fence Around My Heart / James Downs -- A Ceremony For Reclaiming Language / Qwo-li Driskill -- Border / Sharon Doubiago -- Border Crossing / Sharon Elliot -- La Voz Del Inmigrante = Immigrant Voices / Mario Ángel Escobar -- Isabel's Corrido / Martín Espada --^ Giving Voice / Border Inquest Blues / Collecting Thoughts From The Universe Odilia Galván Rodríguez -- Immigrant Crossing / Daniel García -- The Ones Who Live On / La Virgen De Las Calles / Nancy Aidé González -- Mi Bandera = My Flag / Grandchildren Of The United Fruit Company / Sonia Gutiérrez -- Cerrando Herida / Israel Francisco Haros López -- Sand And Bone Desert Spark / Gabriel Hartley -- Juan Mercado / Ralph Haskins -- Kim Ayu (vení Pa'ca) / Claudia D. Hernández -- Where We Belong / In Response To The Man Who Asked, Why Do Your People March Fro Everything? / Andrea Hernández Holm -- Arizona Green (manifesto #1070) / Juan Felipe Herrera -- A Prayer To Santa Cebolla / Mari Herreras -- Our Children Are Not Anchors / Susana De Jesús Huerta -- Grave Song For Immigrant Soldier / Aurora Levins Morales -- The Same Thing / The Remembered / Genny Lim -- The Border Crossed U / Mark Lipman -- Trespasser Shoes / César Love -- Insist And Resist / My Sweet Dream, My Living Nightmare : Adobe Walls / Manuel Lozano -- On Issues Of Aliens And Immigration / Devorah Major -- The Line / John Martínez -- Nunca, Nunca, Nunca : The Corrido Of South Phoenix / Andrea García Mauk -- Arizona Goddam! / Joseph Mcnair -- Rimas Contra Las Cárceles De Papeles / Octaviano Merecias-cuevas -- The Great Wall Of America / James O. Michael -- The Dream That Sleeps With Power : A Sonnet For The Dream Act / Edith Morris-vásquez -- Ancianos / Yasmeen Najmi -- Haiku Poems For Social Justice / Joe Navarro -- Ghost Town : 24 Hours B4 Arizona's Sb 1070 / Gerardo Pacheco Matus -- Outlaw Zone / Melinda Palacio -- Fading Memories / Carlos Parada Ayala -- I Am America / Ramón Piñero -- Reasonable Suspicion / Manuel Ramos -- Who Cares? / Here To Stay / Sin Fronteras = Beyond Borders / Maritza Rivera -- Diluyamos Las Fronteras / Margarita Robleda -- That Indian Man You See On The Hospital Bed / Roberto Cintli Rodríguez -- Lo Prohibido / Renato Rosaldo -- Bratach Bána = White Flags = Banderas Blancas / Gabriel Rosenstock -- If You Leave Your Shoes / Joseph Ross -- Chook Son, Arizona / Abel Salas -- Praise To All The Poets Responding To Sb 107 / Raúl Sánchez -- Denial / Matt Sedillo -- Be Fearless : Choose Love / Nina Serrano -- Desaparecidos / Tom Sheldon -- The Sacred Stone / Seven Ears Of Maize I Do Bring / Hedy García Treviño -- Borders / Tara Evonne Trudell -- Arizona Lamentation / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Stalking The Divine Under A Desert Full Moon / Pam Uschuk -- No Consolation For Lidia / Norma Liliana Valdez -- For A Friend Who Objects To Comparing The Events Leading Up To The Holocaust With What Is Happening Today In Arizona / Richard Vargas -- Emigro / Carlos Vázquez Segura -- Los Desaparecidos / Edward A. Vidaurre -- Breathing While Brown / Alama Luz Villanueva -- Always Here / Rich Villar -- May Day Is Not The Day To Shoot At People Who Work For You / George Wallace -- Sestina For Illegal Widows / Lori A. Williams -- Diaspora / Meg Withers -- We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For / Stephanie Yan -- Why I Feel The Way I Do About Sb 1070 / Andre Yang -- Contributors. Edited By Francisco X. Alarcón And Odilia Galván Rodríguez ; Foreword By Juan Felipe Herrera. Chiefly In English With Several Poems In Spanish; Some Poems In English And Spanish, And One Poem In Irish.

Contents 6
Foreword: They Carry Butterflies in Their Hands by Juan Felipe Herrera 12
Introduction by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez 14
Francisco X. Alarcón 22
Para los nueve del capitolio / For the Capitol Nine 22
Invocation 24
Borderless Compassion 27
JoAnn Anglin - Portions 29
Francisco Aragón - Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood 30
Cathy Arellano - End of an Affair 31
Jorge Tetl Argueta - Nuestros niños y niñas / Our Children 35
Adrián Arias - Tattoo SB 1070 37
Víctor Ávila - Looking Through Chain Link at McAllen Station 39
AvotcjaLa regla de los ladrones / The Law of Thieves 40
Devreaux Baker - Reasonable Suspicion — The Conqueror’s Dream 42
Kristopher Barney - Lightning on a Black Night over the Chuska Mountains 44
Virginia Barrett - Slaughters and Shifts and Migrations—Arizona 46
Esmeralda Bernal - Listen Child 48
Sarah Browning - The Flag of Touch 49
Carmen Calatayud 51
Border Ghost of Sonora 51
Awakening at Night 53
Xánath Caraza - Hoy mujeres y hombres / Today Women and Men 54
Héctor Carbajal - On the Border, We Dream 56
Elizabeth Cazessús - Niño traga fuegos 58
Lorna Dee Cervantes - Olmecan Eyes 59
Ana Chig - Del puente al arco 60
Jabez W. Churchill- Reconsider the Lilies / Considerad de nuevo las azucenas 61
Antoinette Nora Claypoole - The New West 63
Karen S. Córdova - Sonnet for Police Officers Charged with Enforcing SB 1070 64
Iris De Anda - To Be a Pocha or Not to Be 65
Nephtalí De León - Capitol Poetry 67
Susan Deer Cloud - Your America, My Turtle Island 68
Elena Díaz Björkquist 70
Before the World Wakes 70
Two Missing Men, One White, One Brown, One Rich, One Not So Rich 72
James Downs - There Is a Fence Around My Heart 74
Qwo-Li Driskill - A Ceremony for Reclaiming Language 75
Sharon Doubiago - Border 77
Sharon Elliot - Border Crossing 82
Mario Ángel Escobar - La voz del inmigrante / Immigrant Voices 85
Martín Espada - Isabel’s Corrido 87
Odilia Galván Rodríguez 89
Giving Voice 89
Border Inquest Blues 90
Collecting Thoughts from the Universe 92
Daniel García Ordaz - Immigrant Crossing 94
Nancy Aidé González 96
The Ones Who Live On 96
La Virgen de las Calles 98
Sonia Gutiérrez 100
Mi bandera / My Flag 100
Grandchildren of the United Fruit Company 102
Israel Francisco Haros López - Cerrando Herida 104
Gabriel Hartley - Sand and Bone Desert Spark 105
Ralph Haskins - Juan Mercado 106
Claudia D. Hernández - Kim ayu (Vení pa’ca) 108
Andrea Hernández Holm 109
Where We Belong 109
In Response to the Man Who Asked, “Why Do Your People March for Everything?” 110
Juan Felipe Herrera - Arizona Green (Manifesto #1070) 112
Mari Herreras - A Prayer to Santa Cebolla 114
Susana de Jesús Huerta - Our Children Are Not Anchors 115
Aurora Levins Morales - Grave Song for Immigrant Soldier 117
Genny Lim 120
The Same Thing 120
The Remembered 122
Mark Lipman - The Border Crossed Us 123
César Love - Trespasser Shoes 125
Manuel Lozano 126
Insist and Resist 126
My Sweet Dream / My Living Nightmare: Adobe Walls 127
Devorah Major - On Issues of Aliens and Immigration 129
John Martínez - The Line 131
Andrea García Mauk - Nunca, Nunca, Nunca: The Corrido of South Phoenix 132
Joseph McNair - Arizona Goddam! 134
Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas - Rimas contra las cárceles de papeles 137
James O. Michael - The Great Wall of America 138
Edith Morris-Vásquez - The Dream That Sleeps with Power: A Sonnet for the Dream Act 139
Yasmeen Najmi - Ancianos 140
Joe Navarro - Haiku Poems for Social Justice 141
Gerardo Pacheco Matus - Ghost Town: 24 Hours B4 Arizona’s SB 1070 142
Melinda Palacio - Outlaw Zone 144
Carlos Parada Ayala - Fading Memories 145
Ramón Piñero - I Am America 146
Manuel Ramos - Reasonable Suspicion 151
Maritza Rivera 153
Who Cares? 153
Here to Stay 153
Sin fronteras / Beyond Borders 153
Margarita Robleda - Diluyamos las fronteras 154
Roberto Cintli Rodríguez - That Indian Man You See on the Hospital Bed 157
Renato RosaldoLo Prohibido 164
Gabriel Rosenstock - Bratacha Bána / White Flags / Banderas blancas 165
Joseph Ross - If You Leave Your Shoes 167
Abel Salas - Chook Son, Arizona 168
Raúl Sánchez - Praise to All the Poets Responding to SB 1070 171
Matt Sedillo - Denial 172
Nina Serrano - Be Fearless: Choose Love 175
Tom Sheldon - Desaparecidos 176
Hedy García Treviño 177
The Sacred Stone 177
Seven Ears of Maize I Do Bring 179
Tara Evonne Trudell - Borders 180
Luis Alberto Urrea - Arizona Lamentation 181
Pam Uschuk - Stalking the Divine Under a Desert Full Moon 182
Norma Liliana Valdez - No Consolation for Lidia 185
Richard Vargas - For a Friend Who Objects to Comparing the Events Leading Up to the Holocaust with What Is Happening Today in Arizona 186
Carlos Vázquez Segura - Emigro 188
Edward A. Vidaurre - Los Desaparecidos 189
Alma Luz Villanueva - Breathing While Brown 190
Rich Villar - Always Here 192
George Wallace - May Day Is Not the Day to Shoot at People Who Work for You 194
Lori A. Williams - Sestina for Illegal Widows 196
Meg Withers - Diaspora 198
Stephanie Yan - We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For 200
Andre Yang - Why I Feel the Way I Do About SB 1070 201
Contributors 204

2021-06-27