poetry

‘Something is Going On’: A white worker wakes up to racist police violence

March 6, 2020 By Chris Butters

This poem was part of the program at the New York CPUSA African-American History Celebration.

Auschwitz, a poem

January 24, 2020 By Seymour Joseph

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Ten poetry books that illuminate a decade’s struggles

January 15, 2020 By Chris Butters

Every movement for social change—in fact, every socialist revolution—has had its poetry that illuminates, inspires and helps unify our struggles.

‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry

December 12, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.

POETRY: Guessing the Country

December 9, 2019 By Chris Butters

The country where big money is speech and health care is a prayer.