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untitled (evolving love), 2017.

About this feature

In the months following the 2016 presidential election and preceding the 2017 Women’s March, Laynie Browne curated a collection of poems, artwork, and other creative works as a means of fostering resistance. These Solidarity Texts, circulated via PDF before the January 21, 2017, march, are housed here at Jacket2 in their permutated forms. Six critical essays on the Women’s March — its problems and successes — were solicited to contextualize these creative works, and to accompany the texts in this feature.

Banner image: M. NourbeSe Philip, untitled.

Preface

Laynie Browne

Pomp & Pageantry #10
Julie Alpert
Before the cataclysm
Oana Avasilichioaei
Stir Fry
Susan Bee
Dear Laloo
Levi Bentley
Poetry is
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
untitled (evolving love)
Anne-Marie Bonnet
Elegy to Reveal Invisible Wounds
Amaranth Borsuk
SONNET FOR SILVIA FEDERICI
Anne Boyer
This is not.
Susan Briante
Still
Camara Brown
Protest song to the tune of 'This Little Light of Mine'
Lee Ann Brown
Conjure Wives
Laynie Browne
Of Lilies Muskroot Crocuses and Something Similar
Melissa Buzzeo
Intimacy Lesson I
Mimi Cabell
A fourteen-line poem on the idea of freedom
Julie Carr
From 'No To Both Ideas'
Abigail Child
My Currency
Gillian Conoley
From 'I am writing you from afar'
Moyna Pam Dick
The Etiquette of Scribes
Marcella Durand
In Moon we Trust
Fernanda Espinosa
On 100
Diane Exavier
WE CHARGE GENOCIDE
M. Fernandes
Nov. 16–18, 2016
Lisa Fishman
NYT, October 6, 2015, Vivian Stromberg
Dianna Frid
From 'The Wind in her Daughtership's Majesty'
Susan Gevirtz
The Twelve Days of Trump-Pence
Nada Gordon
Love is Colder Than the Lake
Liliane Giraudon
Daisy Chain
Jeanne Heuving
2017 Inauguration Protest Collage for Laynie
Brenda Hillman
Dear Natasha
Cynthia Hogue
Thus
Julie Joosten
An Otherwise of Consciousness
Karla Kelsey
another day
Rosamond S. King
Bill of Rights
Sue Landers
What'd Barbara Say Today?
Kyoo Lee
19th Century Well(s) Woman Vision Board
Janice A. Lowe
Translated To-Do List
Edie Meidav
Instructions
Sharon Mesmer
To Getting Drunk and Yelling at Men
Rachel Milligan
She's a Show
Mette Moestrup
Room 45
Rusty Morrison
The run over
Aya Nabih
Used
Danica Novgorodoff
ID yous
Julie Patton
[2016]
Dawn Pendergast
Becoming Perl / Why is Gravity So Weak / Silence
Nicole Peyrafitte
Ruminations
M. NourbeSe Philip
Involution
Jèssica Pujol Duran
From 'The Misogyny Variations'
Joan Retallack
Now
Elizabeth Robinson
Silent Witness
Susan Sanford
Focus poem for direct action
Kate Schapira
after Marvin Gaye's 'Inner City Blues'
giovanni singleton
New Year's Revolution
Anne Tardos
This Is Not Normal
Lynn O. C. Thompson
This is What Democracy Looks Like
Orchid Tierney
Signage
KC Trommer
Sol i dar i dad (solidarity)
Cecilia Vicuña
Denouement
Anne Waldman
The Americans
Elizabeth Willis
My Grandmama’s House Is Now The EPA
Yolanda Wisher
Severed Head In Its Paws
Elizabeth Zuba
Belief in iterative growth, a breath work
Levi Bentley
Forms of solidarity
Georgina Colby
Begin again
Mia You
Stalling in 'Solidarity Texts'
Connie Yu
Three future dances, or the dance feministic
Julie Carr
The gifts her ancestors gave
Kenna O'Rourke

More on Jacket2 and PennSound

Recordings by the curator and many of the contributors in this feature can be found at PennSound, including material by Laynie Browne, M. NourbeSe Philip, Julie Carr, Julie Patton, and many, many more. Visit PennSound for a full directory.