Poetry has always, worldwide and in all ages, given voice to the people's revolutionary strivings. The great upwelling of these voices in this moment--from written and spoken word to the hiphop lyric -- comes out of, expresses, and inspires our stuggle for a transformed world.
We welcome to this site poetry of resistence and social transformation, human and planetary liberation. Please send poems to poetry@peoplestribune.org.
Please check back regularly as we will be adding new poets and poetry to the page.
Without vision, the people perish.
Jack
Hirschman
Jack Hirschman , now poet Laureate of San Francisco, has taken
the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets, where he is,
in the words of poet Luke Breit,, "America's most important living
poet." He uses his skills to help awaken the American people to
homelessness as an expression of a system that can no longer take care
of its people. He brings a vision of a new America and world. He has
written more than 50 volumes of poetry and essays. His impassioned
readings challenge audiences. He also speaks on various topics,
including the artist's role in social transformation. He is available
through Speakers
for
a
New
America. 
- Ezili
- The Two Words
- From The Xibalba Arcane
- MAYDAY 2008
- For Ehren Watada
- Here Come
- The Union Ferry's Steamin' Up
- The House of the Setting Sun
- This house of hunger
- A Woman Gives Food
- The Deportation Blues
- The Warcane
- Ether Arcane
- The Happiness
- Poem for the Millennium
- Big Jim Bell
- Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Defiant
- Cocktail Party
- Beloved Comrade - In Memory of
- NO VETO!
Sarah
Menefee
Sarah Menefee has a new book of extraordinary poetry, Human
Star. Her other books include I'm Not Thousandfurs and The
Blood
About
the
Heart. She has been a homeless and anti-hunger
activist. She is available to speak through Speakers
for a New America. 
Listen to Sarah speak with PTR correspondent, Jesú
Estrada, about her work and ideas for a new society. (28:23) MP3
- Oh Haiti
- The River
- From The Blood About the Heart
- the burning
- this space
- kicking to live
- why did the wild pink break
- dark age
- for Sue Ying Peery: In Loving Memory
- September 13-17, 2001
- September 30, 2001
- October 1, 2001
Allison
Adelle
Hedge
Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke was named the Writer of the Year in Poetry in 2005 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Huron, Creek, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, English, Scot and Irish ascendents. Her latest book, Blood Run, is dedicated to the mound builders of many nations. She is a professor as the Institute of American Indian Arts, authored and edited many works, including Dog Road Woman; edited From the Fields, an anthology of writing by migrant and rural children in California; Off-Season City Pipe; and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir. She performs readings, workshops and lectures and Youth-at-Risk education. She created an online mentorship project in literary arts for incarcerated youth in South Dakota.
Sarah Hentges
Ko Un
Tiny Gray-Garcia
Cathleen Williams
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