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“Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival” is now live

Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival is now available to read free on the site. It’s our third collection, and it gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration overreach under the second Trump administration, and the long history that came before it. Read the full book here You can scroll through it online… Continue reading
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Adam G. House The emperor has no clothes,throwing rocks from his glass house,atop his ivory towers,watching each quiet church mouse. Oppressing the subjects with his greedy dictates—self-serving proclamations for power.Thieving sleight of hand from behind his holy veil:sanctimonious stench, sheep-skinned wolf, thorny fading flower. The royal lighthouse goes dim,but the patriarch says it’s getting brighter.The… Continue reading
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New Release: Record of Dissent (Summer 2025)

We’re proud to announce the release of our first published collection:Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025 This free digital chapbook features 44 poems of protest, resistance, survival, and hope—brought together under the banner of The Chaos Section Poetry Project. The voices in this collection speak clearly and urgently in… Continue reading

