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.
Just like our first and second books, this free digital edition is made available by TCS Press for non-commercial use and may be shared or reposted on websites, blogs, syllabi, social media, or digital libraries, provided it remains unaltered and properly credited.
Individual poems may also be shared or quoted, as long as the original author is credited. If a poem was first published here, we’d appreciate a link back to this page.
All authors retain the rights to their individual work.
Digital Edition
You can scroll down and read the entire book right here on this page. Each page is displayed in order, just like a physical book. If you prefer, you can also download a high-quality PDF using the button below.
The Paperback Edition is Now Available to Order Online or Through Your Local Bookseller
IngramSpark (Direct from Printer)
The paperback is out now! We set the price as low as the platforms would allow, just enough to cover printing and setup costs. For the best price, order direct from our printer and distributor, IngramSpark.
Support Your Local Bookstore
Independent bookstores have been behind this series from the beginning, and we’d love to see Uprooted on their shelves 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.
Amazon
We know some of you would rather not buy from Amazon, and we get it. This collection is packed with anti-authoritarian, anti-Trump work, and relying on Jeff Bezos to distribute it feels a little… off-brand. But 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.
However you choose to read it, thank you for supporting indie publishing and the poets and activists behind the work. The full book is free to read below.
