Writing is an act of resistance
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Passing On Fire
By Joyce Frohn My grandmother called herself a “tomboy.” She bragged that she could chop wood and bale hay as fast as the men. And then they sat down and read the paper while she baked fine biscuits and pie. She loved hunting, motorcycles and gardening. She raised four children in a boxcar, teaching…
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Election Day
Elizabeth Edelglass, polio, right to vote, Richard Nixon, voter supression, Poetry, Vietnam War, climate change, climate crisisBy Elizabeth Edelglass We stand in line beside our mothers’ stockinged legs, line snaking through the gymnasium, where yesterday we’d also snaked through same gymnasium, mouths agape for the healing cube, sugar our mothers said, but bitter, live virus, our parents had said, to save us from the deadly virus, their voices husky with…
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Work
By Mary Leary Please stop writing about nothing. The light from your lawn chairs. Berries you savored or didn’t, bodies massed for gatherings on back summer lawns. Nice usually means smiling; at least pretending to listen. Maybe keeping it light. No politics at New Year’s Day dinner, you say and I wonder why I…
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We Must Resist
By Laura Martinez Everything has changed Nothing has changed He is gone Does that mean we no longer resist? It “takes time” to undo what he has done Does that mean we no longer resist? As long as elected officials state “America is not a racist country” We must resist As long as there…
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REMINDER: Writers Resist Call for Submissions
Current Call for Submissions We’ll be publishing a special Writers Resist issue on 19 June 2021 to acknowledge Juneteenth and the first 150 days of the Biden-Harris administration. We all see things—politics, justice, history, the future, even flowers—differently. What are you seeing these days? Send us your words, in poetry or prose, and your images,…
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Writers Resist Call for Submissions
We’ll be publishing a special Writers Resist issue on 19 June 2021 to acknowledge Juneteenth and the first 150 days of the Biden-Harris administration—how’re we doing? Send us your words, in poetry or prose, and your images, but read our submission guidelines first. Submissions will be accepted through 15 May 2021. Image is the Juneteenth…
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Join Writers Resist at Boca de Oro Festival
Writers Resist Readings at Boca de Oro Festival March 5 and March 6, 2021 Keynote Speaker: Pete Souza, presidential photographer Closing Speaker: Marc Bamuthi Joseph, poet and playwright The festival of literary, visual, and performing arts presents two virtual WR readings Writers Resist: Global Voices Hosted by Kit-Bacon Gressitt and Sara Marchant. Visit the Writers Resist events page for featured…
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The wicked Trump presidency is dead
Yo-ho! Consequently, this is the final bi-weekly issue of Writers Resist. Although we have other things in the works, we want to pause to thank the hundreds of writers, artists, donors, and volunteer editors, who have lived the last four years with us, raging and weeping and laughing—and hoping. K-B, if she could, would also…
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Paean to All the Books I’m Reading in the Time of COVID
and Black Lives Matter By Patricia Aya Williams From the un-masked and (turtled nooks) of home to the socially – distanced and sanitized patios of coffeeshops, I greet you. The world spins on an axis of livid proclaiming and bulleted majesty while vultures circle the…