Hi friends! We’re happy to announce that the paperback edition of Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival is out now and available if you’d like to order a copy. We’ve priced it as low as the platforms would allow, just enough to (nearly!) cover printing and setup costs. There are several ways to order, and just like all the other books from The Chaos Section Poetry Project, Uprooted will remain free to read and download on this site.

IngramSpark

For the best price, order direct from our printer and distributor, IngramSpark, by clicking this link: Buy direct: $8.99

Support Your Local Bookstore

Independent bookstores like Lioness Books in Leander, Lark & Owl Booksellers in Georgetown, Paper Hearts Bookstore in Little Rock, and BookPeople in Austin have carried our books and have been behind this series from the beginning. We’d love to see Uprooted find its way onto the shelves of more indie bookstores too. Any indie bookstore can order it for you. Ask for Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival by The Chaos Section Poetry Project, and give them the ISBN: 979-8-9993042-3-0. They can look it up through their wholesaler and have a copy in a few days.

It helps the shop, and it helps us too. Every special order tells a store there’s interest in the book, which makes them more likely to stock it, and the rest of the series along with it. If you have a favorite local store, please ask them to order a copy.

And Then There’s Amazon…

We know some of you would rather not buy from Amazon, and we get it. Same. This collection is packed with anti-authoritarian, anti-Trump work, and putting any more money in Jeff Bezos’ pocket feels a little… off-brand. It’s convenient, though, and after weighing the options, we decided that making the book more accessible to more people was the right move. Sometimes, to fight the system, one must make temporary peace with its distribution channels. Buy on Amazon ($9.99)

And as always, the full book is free to read and download here: Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival

However you choose to read it, thank you for supporting indie publishing and the poets and activists behind the work.

Onward,

Nick and Rachel

The Chaos Section Poetry Project

P.S. Uprooted is the third book in The Chaos Section Poetry Project series. The first two are still available to read free online or buy in paperback: Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age and What We Hold On To: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On.

About Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival

In January of 2026, poet Renée Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Later that same month, VA nurse Alex Pretti was killed by Border Patrol agents after stepping in to help a woman being assaulted on the street.

Uprooted gathers poets writing in the aftermath, and in the long history that came before it. This is a collection about enforcement and immigration overreach under the Trump administration: the raids, the detentions, the disappearances, and the resistance rising up to meet them.

Some of these poets are immigrants. Some are citizens who’ve never had to think twice about a knock at the door. All of them are writing toward the same reckoning: what this country does in the name of law, who that law applies to, what it costs the people living here, and how much cruelty a nation will tolerate before it answers back.

Post Featured Image Collage credits: Federal agents in Minneapolis, January 7, 2026: photos by Chad Davis (CC BY 4.0), cropped and converted to black and white. Beet workers: Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, 1937 (Library of Congress, public domain). Statue of Liberty: Willian Justen de Vasconcellos via Pexels and Canva. Flag photo and book cover design: Nick Allison. Cover painting Inclement Freeze: Bonner Fowles.