Women of Resistance

Poems for a New Feminism

Danielle Barnhart editor Iris Mahan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:OR Books

Published:29th Mar '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Women of Resistance cover

  • Outreach for review coverage in major literary and newspaper outlets, as well as feminist magazines and websites (BUST, Rookie, Bitch, Broadly)
  • A collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.

    Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put together an extraordinary list of poets taking a feminist stance against the new authority. What began as an informal collaboration of like-minded poets—to be released as a handbound chapbook—has grown into something far more substantial and ambitious: a fully fledged anthology of women’s resistance, with a portion of proceeds supporting Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

    Representing the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, this collection unites powerful new writers, performers, and activists with established poets. Contributors include Denice Frohman, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maureen N. McLane, Joyce Peseroff, Mary Ruefle, Trish Salah, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zucker.

    Praise for Women of Resistance

    Cited by Autostraddle as one of the "Queer and Feminist Books to Read in 2018"

    "Here we have 49 women and men and queers and inter-sexuals throwing their everything at this moment in time when the patriarch is really shaking, and it looks like he’s about to tumble down. We’ve got this shiny new book. People are scared that nothing will be left after he falls except a bunch of poems. Pick up this glowing book as you’re crawling through the rubble, and poem by poem and page by page you’ll begin to know that you’ll be okay. You’re in there, and so are your friends. You won’t starve, you’re safe and strong thanks to all these proud, funny, violent, trembling words. Start memorizing. Cause the future is here and this stuff is true." — Eileen Myles

    ISBN: 9781944869793

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    224 pages