What Saves Us

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Elizabeth Alexander
Smile

Julia Alvarez
Refugee Women

Doug Anderson
Binge
How Nazis
Subterranean Inner Redneck Blues

Naomi Ayala
Vending
They Roll the Tarp

Ben Balthaser
Ghazal for Jim Foley #5: What Comes Home

Sean Bates
The Face I Wore

Jan Beatty
Trumpcare
I Knew I Wasn’t Poor

Tara Betts
Failed Spells

Richard Blanco
Dreaming a Wall
Complaint of El Río Grande

Rafael Campo
Ten Patients and Another: II. Jamal IV. Kelly VII. Manuel XI. Jane Doe #2
The Chart
The Good Doctor

Hayan Charara
The Problem With Me (Beginning With Abu Ghraib) is the Problem With You (Ending Where the Earth’s Surface Appears to Meet the Sky)

Chen Chen
The School of Logic
The School of Morning & Letters

Brian Clements
22
Grievance

Jim Daniels
Crack the Whip
My Two Aunts

Kwame Dawes
On Hearing News of Another Shot Black Man
Capitalism

Chard DeNiord
Check List

Dante DiStefano
American Dream, 2018
Cradle Song

Kathy Engel
Now I Pray

Martín Espada
Letter to My Father

George Evans
Borderline
The Altar

Tarfia Faizullah
Self-Portrait as Mango

Carolyn Forché
The Boatman
Mourning

Denise Frohman
Puertopia

Danielle Legros-Georges
Poem for the Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere
Shithole

Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Daddy, We Called You
I Want to Write a Poem to Celebrate

Aracelis Girmay
You Are Who I Love

Ruth Goring
The hands that wanted

Adam Grabowski
The Plan

Laurie Ann Guerrero
Ars Política: How to Make Art
Three Hundred Years Before These, Three Hundred Years After

Donald Hall
A Prophecy of Amos

Sam Hamill
Another Year

Samuel Hazo
To a Commencement of Scoundrels

Marcelo Hernández Castillo
Field Guide Ending in a Deportation

Juan Felipe Herrera
We are Remarkably Loud Not Masked

Jane Hirschfield
On the Fifth Day
Let Them Not Say

Everett Hoagland
Georgia on His Mind
 At the Access

Lawrence Joseph
Here in a State of Tectonic Tension
Visions of Labor

Yusef Komunyakaa
A Prayer for Workers
The Mushroom Gatherers

Dorianne Laux
If it weren’t for bad ideas, I’d have no ideas at all

Adrian Louis
Skinology
Invisible Places of Refuge
The Motherland

Paul Mariani
The Girl Who Learned to Sing in Crow
Ghost
Mexico

Demetria Martínez
Inauguration Day, 2017                                                      

Paul Martínez Pompa
MyKillAdoreHer
Framework

Julio Marzán
Don’t Let Me Die in Disneyland  

Marty McConnell
white girl interrogates her own heart again
the sacrament of penance
the sacrament of hope after despair

Leslie McGrath
Rage Bracelet    
When Dividing the Unbelievable by the Undeniable

Richard Michelson
Prayer
Fake News

E. Ethelbert Miller
Still Life in Black
What Do They Do
Bunting and the Art of Non-Violence

Kamilah Aisha Moon
Fannie Lou Hamer
Shared Plight

David Mura
Why Bruce Lee Is Sad
Minneapolis Public                               

John Murillo
Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds
On Confessionalism
Dolores, Maybe.

Maria Nazos
Waitress in a Small Town Seaside Tavern
Overheard Proselytizing Dreadlocked Man's Ghazal

Marilyn Nelson
Honor Guard

Naomi Shihab Nye
Seeing His Face
Gate A-4

Cynthia Dewi Oka
Driving to York Prison in a Thunderbird

Brenda Marie Osbey
As Yet Untitled

Alicia Ostriker
The Light (We all came from somewhere else)
Ghazal: America the Beautiful

Willie Perdomo
Brother Lo on the Prison Industrial Complex

Emmy Pérez
Not one more refugee death

Marge Piercy
IIlegal with only hope
Way Late December 2016

Sasha Pimentel
For Want of Water

Robert Pinsky
An Explanation of America: Serpent Knowledge

Gabriel Ramírez
If Pit Bulls had a Justice System it'd be Belly Rubs
Cotto the Pit Bull of Borinquén

Luivette Resto
Breakfast Conversation with My Oldest Son
A Poem for the Man Who Asked Me: Where Are Your Motherhood Poems?

Peggy Robles-Alvarado
At Every Family Party Where The Grownups Drank Too Much

Luis J. Rodríguez
Heavy Blue Veins: Watts, 1959

William Pitt Root
The Mill of Grief
The Only El Dorado That is Real: Retranslating Neruda

Patrick Rosal
At the Tribunals

Joseph Ross
For Zella Ziona

Nicholas Samaras
All Extinction Is Gradual at First

Ruth Irupé Sanabria
Ars Poetica
A Tree in Perth Amboy

Lauren Schmidt
The Social Worker’s Advice

Tim Seibles
Lucky

Katherine DiBella Seluja
Letter to my suegra, from Artesia, New Mexico

Don Share
From Crown Decline

Danez Smith
sometimes I wish I felt the side effects


Patricia Smith
MAGA
Speak Now, Or Forever.  Hold Your Peace.
Saheed’s Silver Gun

Gary Soto
Campesino
Christmas in East Los Angeles

Mark Turcotte
It Burns
Ezra Learns to Ride

Brian Turner
At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center
Ajal

Chase Twichell
The Ends of the World
The New Dark Ages

Elisabet Velasquez
Self-Portrait of America as a Revival

Richard Villar
Manifesto After the Storm

Ocean Vuong
The Gift

George Wallace
I am Sorry Diane DiPrima

Afaa Weaver
Blackberry Wine
Prayer for the City

Bruce Weigl
What Saves Us
War Story
Wade Park V.A.

Eleanor Wilner
In a Time of War
Establishment
This Straw and Manure World

Daisy Zamora
Death Abroad
Salvadoran Woman on Fillmore Street


Potential poets for anthology:

1.   Chris Abani*
2.    Kim Addonizio 
3.    Doug Anderson*
4.    Naomi Ayala*
5.    Jimmy Santiago Baca*
6.    Ben Balthaser
7.    Jan Beatty
8.    Reginald Dwayne Betts
9.    Tara Betts
10.    Richard Blanco
11.    Rafael Campo
12.    Cyrus Cassells
13.    Hayan Charara
14.    Chen Chen
15.    Marilyn Chin
16.    Sandra Cisneros
17.    Jim Daniels
18.    Kwame Dawes*
19.    Natalie Diaz
20.    Dante DiStefano
21.    Denise Duhamel*
22.    George Evans*
23.    Nikky Finney*
24.    Carolyn Forché
25.    Vievee Francis*
26.    Diana García
27.    Aracelis Girmay*
28.    Laurie Ann Guerrero
29.    Nathalie Handal
30.    Suheir Hamad
31.    Sam Hamill*
32.    Samuel Hazo*
33.    Leticia Hernández-Linares*
34.    Juan Felipe Herrera*
35.    Everett Hoagland
36.    Randall Horton*
37.    Lawrence Joseph
38.    Yusef Komunyakaa
39.    Dorianne Laux
40.    Li Young Lee
41.    Ada Limón
42.    Peggy López Alvarado
43.    Adrian Louis*
44.    Paul Mariani
45.    Julio Marzán
46.    Leslie McGrath
47.    E. Ethelbert Miller*
48.    David Mura*
49.    John Murillo
50.    Maria Nazos
51.    Marilyn Nelson
52.    Naomi Shihab Nye
53.    Sharon Olds
54.    Alicia Ostriker
55.    Oliver de la Paz
56.    Marge Piercy
57.    Robert Pinsky
58.    Paul Martínez Pompa
59.    Gabriel Ramirez
60.    Luivette Resto*
61.    Luis J. Rodríguez*
62.    Joseph Ross
63.    Patrick Rosal
64.    Ruth Irupé Sanabria
65.    Tim Seibles 
66.    Lauren Marie Schmidt*
67.    Jeremy Schraffenberger
68.    Solmaz Sharif
69.    Gary Soto
70.    Patricia Smith*
71.    Marc Turcotte*
72.    Brian Turner
73.    Tino Villanueva*
74.    Rich Villar
75.    Dan Vera
76.    Ocean Vuong
77.    Afaa Weaver*
78.    Bruce Weigl*  
79.    Eleanor Wilner
80. Daisy Zamora*