Politics

In a Country by Larry Levis
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can
American History by Michael S. Harper
Those four black girls blown up
America by Robert Creeley
America, you ode for reality!
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
Patriotics by David Baker
Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy,
Dear George Bush by Kristin Prevallet
I am writing this letter just to inform you that the tide is turning.
Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da
They say that you, a road builder
Identity Crisis by F. D. Reeve
He was urged to prepare for success
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman
This is what she says about Russia, in the year 2000, in
Exquisite Candidate by Denise Duhamel
I can promise you this: food in the White House
Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel
The perfect voter has a smile but no eyes
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry by Carl Dennis
I guess I have to begin by admitting
Election Year by Donald Revell
A jet of mere phantom
All Their Stanzas Look Alike by Thomas Sayers Ellis
All their fences
America by Claude McKay
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness
America by James Monroe Whitfield
America, it is to thee
Children of Our Era by Wislawa Szymborska
We are children of our era
Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
Each day we go about our business
Delicate Cluster by Walt Whitman
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind by Carl Sandburg
American Names by Stephen Vincent Benét
I have fallen in love with American names