Resist Much / Obey Little
Inaugural Poems to the Resistance
Edited by Michael Boughn, John Bradley, Brenda Cardenas, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Kass Fleisher, Roberto Harrison, Kent Johnson, Andrew Levy, Nathaniel Mackey, Ruben Medina, Philip Metres, Nita Noveno, Julie Patton, Margaret Randall, Michael Rothenberg, Chris Stroffolino, Anne Waldman, Marjorie Welish, Tyrone Williams
ISBN 978-1-944682-32-3 (pbk.) $30.00 738 pages
ISBN 978-1-944682-54-5 (hdc.) $45.00
edited by Michael Boughn & Kent Johnson
we can’t build a wall. we can only spout pure water again and again and drown his lies.
Eileen Myles
Racism, xenophobia, misogyny and their related malaises are to the U.S. what whiskey is to an alcoholic. The current occupant of the White House won the election yipping, against possible recovery, “Drinks are on me!” The rich, multitudinous voices in this anthology variously call for—having embarked on—the hard work of sobriety, sanity.
Nathaniel Mackey
Poets are summoned to a stronger imagination of language and humanity in a time of new and radical Weathers. White House Inc. is the last gasp of the dying Confederacy, but its spectacle is dangerous and addictive so hold onto your mind. Fascism loves distraction. Keep the world safe for poetry. Open the book of love and resistance. Don't tarry!
Anne Waldman
New York Times
Poet Bob Holman reading (May, 2017) from Resist Much as part of the PEN World Voices series
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Nibaldo Acero
Nancy Agabian
Andrés Ajens
Youssef Alaoui
Rosa Alcalá
Charles Alexander
Will Alexander
William Allegrezza
Caitlin M. Alvarez
Joe Amato
Bruce Andrews
Robert Archambeau
Bob Arnold
JoAnn Balingit
Barbara Barg
John Beer
Ana Belén López
Rosebud Ben-Oni
John M. Bennet
Steve Benson
Jay Besemer
Stephen Bett
Richard Blevins
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Andrew R. Boettcher
Katy Bohinc
Charles Borkhuis
Dianne Borsenik
Michael Boughn
Kent Bowker
John Bradley
Susan Briante
Alan Britt
Christopher Brown
Lee Ann Brown
Laynie Browne
John Burns
Melissa Buzzeo
Don Byrd
Anthony Cappo
Xánath Caraza
Brenda Cárdenas
Jessica Wilson Cárdenas
Kristen Case
Hayan Charara
cris cheek
Chin-In Chen
Maxine Chernoff
Abigail Child
Wendy Chin-Tanner
chiwan choi
Andres Cisneros de la Cruz
Franklin K. R. Cline
Norma Cole
Victor Coleman
Ed Coletti
Matthew Cooperman
Michael Copperman
Joshua Corey
Paul Corman-Roberts
Lydia Cortes
Ricardo Cortez Cruz
Curtis L. Crisler
Garin Cycholl
Lyle Daggett
Beverly Dahlen
Pedro Damian Bautista
Chris Daniels
Ruth Danon
Jill Darling
doris davenport
Michael Davidson
Jenny L. Davis
Jean Day
Terence Degnan
Ian Demsky
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson
Reed Dickson
Linh Dinh
Dante Di Stefano
Thom Donovan
Johanna Drucker
Andrew DuBois
Alice O. Duggan
Denise Duhamel
Patrick Dunagan
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Marcella Durand
Patrick Durgin
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Stephen Ellis
Clayton Eshleman
Carrie Etter
Amy Evans
Tanya Evanson
Jim Feast
Robert Fernandez
Crystal Field
Guillermo Filice Castro
Bonny Finberg
Annie Finch
Norman Finklestein
Norman Fischer
Kass Fleisher
Lewis Freedman
Lisa Freedman
Ru Freeman
Bill Freind
Philip Fried
Gloria Frym
William Fuller
Kelle Grace Gaddis
Matt Gagnon
Forrest Gander
Edgar Garcia
Drew Gardner
Joseph Gastiger
Galo Ghigliotto
David Giannini
Robert Gibbons
Daniela Gioseffi
Judith Goldman
Larry Goodell
Nada Gordon
Noah Eli Gordon
Jaki Shelton Green
Peter Milne Greiner
Myla Grier
Whit Griffin
Rosemary Griggs
Gabriel Gudding
Jeff Gundy
Eduardo Guzmán Chávez
Rob Halpern
Janet Hamill
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Daniel Y. Harris
Roberto Harrison
Carla Harryman
Quintus Havis
Marwa Helal
Michael Heller
Jeanne Heuving
William Heyen
Matt Hill
Owen Hill
Brenda Hillman
Jack Hirschman
Andrea Hollander
Bob Holman
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Christopher Howell
Detrick Hughes
Brenda Iijima
Alan W. Jankowski
Lisa Jarnot
Edgar Artaud Jarry
Paolo Javier
Brooks Johnson
Judith Johnson
Kent Johnson
Patricia Spears Jones
Pierre Joris
Janine Joseph
Fady Joudah
Michael Joyce
Judy Juanita
George Kalamaras
Eliot Katz
Vincent Katz
Tim Keane
Douglas Kearney
Burt Kimmelman
Basil King
David Kirby
Davy Knittle
Robert Kocik
Ron Kolm
Anja Konig
Irene Koronas
Dean Kostos
Dee Dee Kramer
Sean Labrador y Manzano
Mark Lamoureux
Susanna Lang
Ted Lardner
David Lau
Patrick Lawler
Mercedes Lawry
Ruth Lepson
Ken Letko
Andrew Levy
erica lewis
Susan Lewis
Genny Lim
R. Zamora Linmark
Joan Logghe
Janice A. Lowe
Brian Lucas
Nathaniel Mackey
Steven Manuel
Filip Marinovich
Al Markowitz
Shelly Marlow
Jack Martin
Valerie Martínez
Paul Martinez-Pompa
Siwar Masannat
Farid Matuk
Syreeta McFadden
Rubén Medina
Caits Meissner
Miranda Mellis
Edric Mesmer
Philip Metres
elena minor
José-Luis Moctezuma
Juan Morales
Laura Moriarty
Sarah Morrison
Andrew Mossin
Erin Moure
Laura Mullen
Eileen Myles
Sawako Nakayasu
Joe Napora
Uche Nduka
Paul Nelson
Murat Nemet-Nejat
Richard Newman
Brian Ng
Joey Nicoletti
A.L. Nielsen
Joseph Noble
Urayoán Noel
Linda Norton
Nita Noveno
Jules Nyquist
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
Peter O’Leary
Adrienne Oliver
John Olson
Sergio Ortiz
Gordon Osing
Alicia Ostriker
Maureen Owen
Joe Pan
Tamas Panitz, tr.
Soham Patel
Julie Patton
Ted Pearson
José Peguero
Michelle Peñaloza
Craig Santos Perez
Emmy Pérez
Michael Peters
NourbeSe Philip
Wanda Phipps
Wang Ping
Robert Podgurski
Julien Poirier
Tina Posner
Robert Priest
Patrick Pritchett
Chris Pusateri
Ruben Quesada
Alicia Jo Rabins
Charles Rammelkamp
Margaret Randall
Amanda Ngoho Reavey
Tennessee Reed
Margaret Rhee
John Rigney
Marguerite María Rivas
Sherry Robbins
Mg Roberts
Kirk Robinson
Kit Robinson
MaVi Robles-Castillo
Lasantha Rodrigo
Luis J. Rodriguez
Ruben J. Rodriguez
Pilar Rodríguez-Aranda
Linda Rogers
Michael Rothenberg
Julie Rouse
Joe Safdie
Lisa Samuels
Edward Sanders
Larry Sawyer
Jared Schickling
Jason Schneiderman
Danniel Schoonebeek
Ilka Scobie
Hugh Seidman
Jesse Seldess
Anis Shivani
Larissa Shmailo
Evie Shockley
John Shoptaw
Laura Shovan
Ron Silliman
Sandra Simonds
Jonathan Skinner
Austin Smith
Gerard Smyth
Megan Snyder-Camp
BJ Soloy
Alan Sondheim
André Spears
Dani Spinosa
Eleni Stecopoulos
Julia Stein
Winifred Celeste Davis Stragand
Chris Stroffolino
Terese Svoboda
Eileen R. Tabios
Nathaniel Tarn
Ken Taylor
t thilleman
Lorenzo Thomas
John Tipton
James Tolan
Edwin Torres
Rodrigo Toscano
KC Trommer
Keith Tuma
Matt Turner
Arysteides Turpana
Peter Valente, tr.
Kevin Vaughn
Lisa Vihos
R.A. Villanueva
María Villatoro
Moisés Villavicencio Barras
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas,
Fred Wah
Anne Waldman
Lewis Warsh
Joshua Weiner
Marjorie Welish
Donald Wellman
Ross Wheeler
Frederick Whitehead
Walt Whitman
Charles Whittaker
Tyrone Williams
Morgan Grayce Willow
Suzanne Wise
Lissa Wolsak
Heather Woods
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Anton Yakolev
Daniel Zimmerman
Marilyn Zuckerman