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Making space in the academy: Poetry for the People, forever

A collage of Poetry for the People anthologies

P4P anthologies over the years have featured the poetry, prose, and artwork of generations of students.

Top row, from left:
Who Says the Right to Love Doesn’t Deserve a Movement?, Fall 2004
Whose Country Is This Anyway?, Spring 1995
Survival Take a Verse, Fall 1998
Venus, Spring 2003
In Poetry We Trust: student poets spit their peace, Spring 2003
Mahfouz: Our Right to Our Words, Spring 1998
The Power Of The Word, 1992
Soldiers of All Colors: Steppin’ to Our Minds, Berkeley High Anthology 1998
No Voice, No Choice, No Country, Is This What We Want?, 1993
Poetry Should Run for Office, 2004

Second row, from left:
What Now?, 1991
Poet: Leaves an Impression, Berkeley High Anthology, 1996-1997

Third row, from left:
profiles in conflict, Spring 2002
Write or Be Erased, Spring 2005
we are the ones we have been waiting for, Spring 1999
Poetry for the People in a Time of War, 1991
In a Light This Beautiful, Fall 2000
My Oakland Sings: The June Jordan Poetry Prize Anthology, 2004-2006
This Is How We Flow, Spring 1999
71 Seconds of Freedom, 1997
lo que debemos que decir, Spring 2000
poetry for the people presents poetry in a Season of Love, 1994

Bottom row, from left:
And Our Eyes Were Watching, Fall 2005
Constructing the New Democracy, Spring 2001
Speak on It! Smash the State: The Second Coming, Spring 2002
My Skin: A Canvas of Poems, Fall 2003
Witness: A Collection of Revolutionary Poetry by Berkeley High and UC Berkeley Students, Fall 1999
Love Lifts Borders, Spring 2006
i have seen concrete disintegrate, Spring 2009
Unleashed, Berkeley High School 2002-2003 Anthology
Poetry in a Time of Genocide, 1993

Poetry for the People anthologies, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.