The New Inquiry's Generous, Treasonous, Must-Read Reading List

The New Inquiry has posted "A Time for Treason," a reading list for these dark times created by "a group of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, and Jewish people who are writers, organizers, teachers, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, and radicals."

The group has assembled the reading into distinct categories: Anti-Fascism/Fascism History; U.S. Repression & McCarthyism; Security Culture/The Surveillance State; Resistance Tactics; Black Liberation; Resisting ICE and Deportations; Chicano Oppression and Resistance; The Border, the Wall; Black Migration; Muslim Surveillance/Muslim Resistance; Indigenous Resistance; Feminist History, Reproductive Health, Trans and Queer Rights; and, you guessed it, Poetry. It's a fantastic resource. Here's the latter--head to the New Inquiry for the full roundup.

“The White House” by Claude McKay

“An American Poem” by Eileen Myles

“Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander

“Brazilian Is Not A Race” by Wendy Trevino

“A Song for Many Movements” by Audre Lorde (audio)

“Afterimages” by Audre Lorde

“I Want a Dyke for President” by Zoe Leonard

“Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni

“The President has Never Said the Word ‘Black’” by Morgan Parker

“Spirits Unchained” by Keorapetse Kgositsile

“Conditions XIV” by Essex Hemphill

“Feeling Fucked Up” by Etheridge Knight

Selections from Poems from Guantanamo

“For Malcolm X” by Margaret Walker

“I Come From the Nigger Yard” by Martin Carter

“Young Blood” by Assata Shakur

“Our Wandering” by Dawn Lundy Martin

“Addressed to Alabama” by Langston Hughes