Poetry Guide: Social Justice and #BLM: Home

The creative writing students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock began curating this list in the fall of 2016 in order to bring together the best of the poems being published in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Selection of performance poetry around #BLM

A webpage from The Poetry Foundation from 2018, with selected resources, in reaction to the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement.

The Academy of American Poets, from its massive holding of poems, has archived collections that speak to #Black Lives Matter

Database of Poetry from Split This Rock

From webpage mission statement - official #BLM site: "Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture expands and explores this moment in art culture that is reflective of the 1960s and 1970s when the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Women’s Rights Movements, and efforts to diversify art institutions, dominated the discourse."

Button Poetry produces and distributes the work of performance poets across formats.

From mission statement: "Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape,"

From mission statement: "The Hurston/Wright Foundation provides multiple workshops and classes to serve emerging and mid-career writers in the genres of fiction, nonfiction and poetry."

From mission Statement: "Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature."

Mission: Lambda Literary nurtures and advocates for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve our legacies, and affirm the value of our stories and our lives"

Blog of Letras Latinas, "The literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), strives to enhance the visibility, appreciation and study of Latinx literature both on and off the campus of the University of Notre Dame"

"The Poetry Coalition is a national alliance of more than 25 organizations dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds."

"VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) is the only multi-genre workshop for writers of color."

The Watering Hole is "a home where poets of color in the South can learn and grow at each others’ feet. As a multiethnic, intergenerational, intersectional Tribe, we meet poets at every leve."l