New Spuyten Duyvil Anthology to Benefit Planned Parenthood

Bustle heralds the arrival of a new anthology that emphasizes poetry's vital role in contemporary protest and resistance movements. The anthology, Resist Much Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, clocks in at 740 pages and features verse by an astonishing array of poets. According to the anthology's publisher, Spuyten Duyvil, 50% of all net sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood, "a healthcare organization that has found itself under particular attack (as most of us well know) in the early days of a Trump presidency," Bustle notes. Via Bustle correspondent E. Ce Miller:

At a time when writers and poets are questioning the role of art in politics — while yet finding greater urgency behind the art they create — one new anthology seeks to reinforce poetry's role in the resistance. That anthology is Resist Much Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, published March 3 by Spuyten Duyvil; and, at a whopping 740 pages, this collection will keep you in protest poetry for awhile. If the first 50-some days of Trump's presidency are any indication, you're going to need it.

Resist Much Obey Little is an expansive collection of diverse voices — one that’s inception speaks to the tension of today’s political climate (and the imperative to resist it.) The idea for the collection sparked on the morning of November 9, 2016; mere hours after the results of the U.S. presidential election had been announced, and perhaps well before the reality of a Donald Trump presidency had really sunk in for most of us. Between November 9, 2016 and March 3, 2017, the team of editors behind Resist Much Obey Little turned that idea for a resistance poetry collection into a reality, assembling the writing of over 350 poets from around the world, finishing and publishing the collection in a whirlwind 115 days.

Read on at Bustle.