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“Excellent… These poems speak to the fascism all around us today, and, sometimes, in us.” — WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed by CounterPunch
Monday, September 14th, 2020“The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women….” —Herizons
Thursday, May 9th, 2019 “The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for
a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women….Edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan, the collection brings together 50 diverse feminist poets and activists in a fierce, exuberant, tender, gorgeous choir of voices.”
The full review will be online soon. Check out the magazine here.
“The editors should be very proud. They’ve ignited women to fight for their bodies, their agency, and their lives.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed in the Women’s Review of Books
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018The editors of Women of Resistance should be very proud. They brought hope and community to their contributors, and the book that resulted will surely do the same for its readers. They’ve ignited women to fight for their bodies, their agency, and their lives—and they inspired me to write, too.
Read the full review in the latest print edition of the Women’s Review of Books here.
“An excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed at Hyperallergic
Monday, August 13th, 2018When I picked up Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, a collection of poems by 49 female-identified poets published by OR Books, I hoped to report that feminist poetry — and the new feminism that it represents — would not be a tragic, polemic trudge through the trash-pile that patriarchy has made of the world and women’s lives. .
Read the full review here.
An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job: from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
By National Slam Champion, Beltway Grand Slam Champion, and a 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam representative Elizabeth Acevedo, from Women of Resistance.
An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
who stuck a cross in my face and told me,
“abortions are the largest genocide of black people,
God won’t forgive you for having one”:
I’m not sure how I became the finger
to pull the trigger of your mouth.
That’s a lie. I know exactly what turned
my lunch break into a firing range
and why this clay pigeon of a body
attracted your aim—
Tell me more, how you care about
“this largest genocide of black people”
when I’ve never seen you and your signs
at a Black Lives Matter protest.
Tell me, did you mourn Tamir & Aiyana & Jordan,
as hard as you celebrated the shooting of a clinic in Colorado?
Do you know how often I’ve walked by
your markers, megaphones, and mantras?
Your pickets signs and prayers that you cock like pistols
as I clench half a millennium of horror between my teeth?
You don’t know my god.
You and mine ain’t on speaking terms.
My god understands the choices black women
have needed to make in the face of genocide.
My god understands how slave women plucked pearls
from between their legs rather than see them strung up by the neck.
My god doesn’t condemn us who when faced with taking claim of our bodies
do so with our chins unchained to the ground.
My god understands how for generations bodies like mine
were the choice for someone like you to make.
Do you know how many years, women like me
lived equally afraid of both hangings and hangers?
Yet we’re still here, everyday carrying ourselves.
Further Reading
- “Excellent… These poems speak to the fascism all around us today, and, sometimes, in us.” — WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed by CounterPunch (9/14/2020)
- “The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women….” —Herizons (5/9/2019)
- “The editors should be very proud. They’ve ignited women to fight for their bodies, their agency, and their lives.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed in the Women’s Review of Books (8/14/2018)
- “An excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed at Hyperallergic (8/13/2018)
- An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job: from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE (7/10/2018)
WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Poems for a New Feminism
Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More |
GRABBING PUSSY
In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. More |
INFERNO (A POET’S NOVEL)
“[W]hat more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” —Alison Bechdel on Inferno. More |
“Empowering, demanding, comforting and tragic all at the same time”: WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed at Cultured Vultures
Thursday, April 12th, 2018Women of Resistance: Poem for a New Feminism is a collection of poems revolving around the subjects of sexism and racism, whether ‘everyday’ or more extreme, and the implications of such attitudes in a wider consideration.
Reading the book, I got the overwhelming impression that each poet is in full support of the other, and that they are all restless for the same cause. There is something profoundly comforting in the knowledge that all these people understand; there is a sense of an army of poets, voices shouting from the pages that things need to change.
Read the full review at Cultured Vultures.
Read an extract from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE: POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM in The Chicago Review of Books
Friday, April 6th, 2018With contributions from 41 poets, Women of Resistance: Poems of a New Feminism moves across race, age, gender identity, class, sexuality, and life experience to present a full, complex picture of the true diversity of contemporary womanhood that’s too often overlooked.
Read the full extract here.
Read an extract from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE: POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM in The Big Issue
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018A collection of poems ‘for a new feminism’, edited by Daniele Barnhart and Iris Mahan. We share five our favourites.
Read the full extract here.
“Poeta, You Resist”: ROSEBUD BEN-ONI with a tribute to fellow WOMEN OF RESISTANCE contributors in The Kenyon Review
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018Author’s Note: The following was read at the Women of Resistance book launch last night, March 13th, 2018, at Strand Bookstore in NYC. I wanted to write a piece that incorporated the words of my fellow contributors with whom I read that night– Denice Frohman, Mahogany L. Browne, Dorothea Lasky and Maureen McLane– and ended up writing this essay (be sure to click on the links and read their poems in full). They are all poets I’ve read and reread, and their poems have kept my heart beating in some really trying times. Special thanks to the amazing bookstore staff, to OR Books, and all the gratitude in the world to editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan whose dedication and generosity have made and are going to continue to make wonderful things happen in poetry and beyond. –Rosebud Ben-Oni
Read the full piece at The Kenyon Reivew.
SAFIA ELHILLO’s “after”: a selection from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE for Women’s History Month
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018Throughout Women’s History Month, we’ll be celebrating the poets from Women of Resistance. Sudanese by way of Washington, D.C., Safia Elhillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a co-winner of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation, and Crescendo Literary and The Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Incubator.
after
after Danez Smith, with a line by Ol’ Dirty Bastard
if you read this in red maybe i didn’t
survive every day i go missing one
eyelash at a time or sometimes all
at once & in the heaven for
blackgirls gone away we walk in
& out of rivers & wear our good silks
our good brown velvet bodies dripping
with sunlight we sprout leaves & no one
decides for us to cut or keep them we
bear fruit & self-sustain we tread water we
pluck the moon for our hair & another grows
in its place we are sistered or unsistered
but never again to a dead thing somewhere
a rope turns & turns & our feet never touch
the ground somewhere a song playes
& plays & names us with each touch of a needle to our
round black surfaces
i’m hanging out /partying/with girls/that never die
Further Reading
- “Excellent… These poems speak to the fascism all around us today, and, sometimes, in us.” — WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed by CounterPunch (9/14/2020)
- “The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women….” —Herizons (5/9/2019)
- “The editors should be very proud. They’ve ignited women to fight for their bodies, their agency, and their lives.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed in the Women’s Review of Books (8/14/2018)
- “An excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed at Hyperallergic (8/13/2018)
- An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job: from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE (7/10/2018)
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WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Poems for a New Feminism
Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More |
INFERNO (A POET’S NOVEL)
“[W]hat more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” —Alison Bechdel on Inferno. More |
SALMA
Filming a Poet in Her Village
When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. More |
“Vibrant and dynamic”: Tears in the Fence review WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018This anthology has a strong feminist ethos that cuts through race, gender identity and sexuality. The resistance in the title stems from the fight for agency through suffrage in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as US President. The editor’s note that ‘suffrage’ comes from Middle English, meaning intercessory prayer, and this informs their invocation of the other, encompassing transgender women, as well as its sense of grieving for the violence, rape and oppression of women.
Read the full review here.
“We never wanted to kill // only to stay alive ”: Read five poems from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE at Literary Hub
Monday, March 12th, 2018This is a collection of essays that I would like every bookseller, book blogger, book reviewer, arts page editor, and minister for the arts to read. The Internet has revolutionised how we think, read, and write; for good or for ill, it’s a phenomenon to which readers and critics should be paying close attention. With consistently solid writing and argumentation, and a rich diversity of opinion and focus, The Digital Critic is illuminating at every turn.
Read five new poems from Women of Resistance:Poems for a New Feminism here.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEAR MY JOB: we kick off Women’s History Month with a selection from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE by Elizabeth Acevedo
Monday, March 5th, 2018Throughout Women’s History Month, we’ll be celebrating the poets from Women of Resistance. Here first is Elizabeth Acevedo, from New York City, the only daughter of Dominican immigrants. She is a National Slam Champion, Beltway Grand Slam Champion, and the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam representative for Washington, D.C., where she lives and works.
An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
who stuck a cross in my face and told me,
“abortions are the largest genocide of black people,
God won’t forgive you for having one”:
I’m not sure how I became the finger
to pull the trigger of your mouth.
That’s a lie. I know exactly what turned
my lunch break into a firing range
and why this clay pigeon of a body
attracted your aim—
Tell me more, how you care about
“this largest genocide of black people”
when I’ve never seen you and your signs
at a Black Lives Matter protest.
Tell me, did you mourn Tamir & Aiyana & Jordan,
as hard as you celebrated the shooting of a clinic in Colorado?
Do you know how often I’ve walked by
your markers, megaphones, and mantras?
Your pickets signs and prayers that you cock like pistols
as I clench half a millennium of horror between my teeth?
You don’t know my god.
You and mine ain’t on speaking terms.
My god understands the choices black women
have needed to make in the face of genocide.
My god understands how slave women plucked pearls
from between their legs rather than see them strung up by the neck.
My god doesn’t condemn us who when faced with taking claim of our bodies
do so with our chins unchained to the ground.
My god understands how for generations bodies like mine
were the choice for someone like you to make.
Do you know how many years, women like me
lived equally afraid of both hangings and hangers?
Yet we’re still here, everyday carrying ourselves.
Further Reading
- “Excellent… These poems speak to the fascism all around us today, and, sometimes, in us.” — WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed by CounterPunch (9/14/2020)
- “The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women….” —Herizons (5/9/2019)
- “The editors should be very proud. They’ve ignited women to fight for their bodies, their agency, and their lives.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed in the Women’s Review of Books (8/14/2018)
- “An excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood.” – WOMEN OF RESISTANCE reviewed at Hyperallergic (8/13/2018)
- An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job: from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE (7/10/2018)
|
WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Poems for a New Feminism
Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More |
INFERNO (A POET’S NOVEL)
“[W]hat more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” —Alison Bechdel on Inferno. More |
SALMA
Filming a Poet in Her Village
When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. More |
Autostraddle names WOMEN OF RESISTANCE one of its 65 queer and feminist books to read in 2018
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018Read the full early 2018 queer and feminist book preview on Autostraddle.
