Poetry As Resistance with Sophie Crocker

Sit down with Larissa and Sophie as they discuss how poetry as an art form is used to resist violence and injustice. Learn about amazing modern poets who use their work to change the world and how you can get involved. Grab your favourite work and resist with us on episode 7.

Resources provided by Sophie are below! They are in order that they appear in the audio, and additional ones she sent are at the bottom. Thank you so much, Sophie!

Eve Tuck 
“Decolonization is not a Metaphor”

Danez Smith
“Antipoetica” in Bluck 

Rainer Maria Rilke quote: 

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”

Maya Angelou
“Still I Rise”
and other writings!

Mary Baraka
Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems

Dionne Brand
Nomenclature
The Blue Clerk
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Chimwemwe Undi
Scientific Marvel

Poets Soph knows personally to check out!
Leslie Joy Ahenda
Brandi Bird

Noor Hindi (Palestinian Poet to check out)
“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying”

Mahmoud Darwish (Palestinian Poet to check out)

The Kaveh Akbar lecture is “Towards the Revelatory Break.”

Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

To find at your library and elsewhere:

Libby the Library App
Franny Choi
Chen Chen
The Tin House Podcast
The Versus Podcast

Additional: 

Sophie recommends Deaf Republic by Ilya Kominsky, Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor, most work by June Jordan, and most work by Morgan Parker.

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