Poetry:
- Poems For Coping: This poetry packet includes poems for coping & discussing post-election, put together by Editor Janice Lee. There is a PDF version here on Enclave. It is now a poetry playlist online at Verse here. More poems for coping here on Enclave and a roundup, continually updated.
- The Poems That Help With Sudden Change by Julie Beck (The Atlantic)
- Still, Poetry Will Rise: Why Poetry Is Viral in the Aftermath of Trump’s Election by Megan Garber (The Atlantic)
- “You’re Dead America” by Danez Smith (Buzzfeed)
- “No-Titled” by Robert Balun (Yes Poetry)
- “The Day After the Election I Did Not Go Outside” by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (The New Inquiry)
- #NotMyPresident Series at Heavy Feather Review
- The Health of Us by Claudia Rankine (Lithub)
- Tarpaulin Sky responds to post-election Week One.
- 7×7 Responds: U.S. Election 2016 (7×7)
- Truth & Dread: Why Poetry Still Matters & The Risk of (Too Much) Empathy by Emilia Phillips (Ploughshares)
- ELDERLY’S NOT MY COUNTRY – Download PDF issue.
- When Even Words Fail by Aine Greaney (WBUR.org)
- Poetry As Political Expression (Poetry Playlist, Verse.Press)
- Renga for Obama (Harvard Review)
- Love’s Executive Order – A literary magazine publishing a weekly poem on the Trump presidency.
Stories/Testimonies:
- why we’re afraid – News stories and personal accounts since the election: “don’t tell us we’re overreacting.”
- Why Are You Marching? – Stories from those planning to attend the Women’s March on Washington, DC.
- i love you, we’re dead meat by P.E. Garcia (HTMLGIANT)
- Waking Up In Trump’s America Part I by Maya Binyam, Hannah Gold, Moira Donegan, and Mayukh Sen (The New Inquiry)
- Waking Up In Trump’s American Part II by Willie Osterweil, Tim Barker, Yuhe Faye Wang, and Haris Durrani (The New Inquiry)
- Forum: After Trump by Janice Fine, Judith Levine, Robin D. G. Kelly, Christopher Petrella, William Howell, and Nick Bromell (Boston Review)
- Where to Begin by Sarah Gerard (Hazlitt)
- If You’re in the Fight, Get Ready to Do the Work by Melissa Chadburn (Dame Magazine)
Visual Art:
- Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies – A series of weekly drawings from Hyperallergic.
- Hello Mussolini – Daily anti-Trump comics by Carl Dmitri.
Reading Lists/Syllabi:
- A Reading List for Undoing Amerika (Collaborative Google Doc)
- Trump Syllabus 2.0 by N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain (Public Books)
- 25 Works of Poetry and Fiction for Anger and Action by Emily Temple (Lit Hub)
- Teaching After Trump by Melissa Febos (Granta)
- The Stop Trump Reading List: Arm Your Mind With These 16 Books (Remezcla)
- Ten Contemporary Novels By and About Muslims You Should Read by Emily Temple (Lit Hub)
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Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves (Collaborative Google Doc)
- A collection of reading lists to prepare for the age of Trump by Constance Grady (Vox)
- A Post-Election Reading List (FSG Work in Progress)
- 40 New Feminist Classics: A Reading List for Sticking It to Mike Pence by Emily Temple (Lit Hub)
- A Time for Treason (The New Inquiry)
- The Complete Anti-Fascist Reading List (Anti-Fascist News)
- 25 Essays Against Whitelash (Boston Review)
- 75 Books for the Next Four Years (Literary Hub)
- Fuck Trump Reading List (Verso Books)
- Five Comics Depicting Immigrant and Refugee Stories around the World by Susan Harris (Words Without Borders)
- Joyfully: Reading as Generative Resistance by Erin Wunker (All Lit Up)
Where to Submit Your Writing:
- Matter Studios is looking for urgent stories from powerful, singular voices.
- #NotMyPresident – Online: Heavy Feather Review has reaffirmed its mission to elevate marginalized groups by initiating a new blog feature, #NotMyPresident, an online space for these communities to publish new writing.
- PunksWritePoemsPress is taking submissions about the election of Donald Trump.
- Us For President is a new literary magazine publishing work “by people who are angry and grieving and confused and numb.” Send poetry, prose, art, and spoken word.
- Yes Poetry is accepting submissions for their new series #NotTrump. On a rolling basis. Send to editor@yespoetry.com.
- Mount Analogue has a free open call for political pamphlets.
- States of the Union is a book about the results of the 2016 presidential election, currently seeking contributors. Non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and art.
- Cleaver Magazine’s Life As Activism: “We want your prose and poems of trauma, protest, hope, or healing as they relate to this past U.S. election, social justice, and activism going forward.”
- Gravel’s Trumped Up Blog is a venue for essays, poetry, flash, and art regarding the 2016 election.
- Rise Up Review, a magazine for poetry of opposition, is taking submissions for its first issue.
- Banango Street is accepting submissions for a special issue, Respond, which will feature work in response to the current political climate.
- Dryland’s Poets In Unity: Responses to the Election of Donald Trump, a space for the voices of the oppressed, will publish poems the day they’re accepted.
- Mizna, a journal committed to providing a forum for Arab Americans, is accepting submissions for an upcoming issue called Surviving the Rhetoric: Arabs & Muslims as Villains, Again. Deadline: February 28, 2017.
- RESIST! is accepting comics and illustrations on the theme of political resistance to the forces of intolerance.
- VIDA Review is seeking essays on politics and activism within and outside the lit community for a special feature called Where Do We Go From Here. Submissions are rolling. Contact managing editor Marcelle Heath: marcelle@vidaweb.org.
- The Moments Collective invites you to take pause, reflect, and create something in response to post-election 2016.
- The Stay Project is an online space for feelings, thoughts, reactions, hopes, and fears in response to the election.
- Unstitched States: A digital quilt – Add your square.
- Thoughtcrime Press is assembling an anthology of poems and essays in response to the election. Profits will be donated to Planned Parenthood and groups supporting Black Lives Matter and public water rights.
- The Rumpus – Torch: Stories of America is seeking submissions for a series devoted to showcasing personal essays, interviews, and art about immigrant and refugee experiences.
- Robocup Press’s DEFY! Anthology welcomes submissions of poems, essays, short stories, hybrid/cross-genre pieces, art, and photographs on the topic of defiance/rebellion/resistance/revolution. Deadline: March 15, 2017.
- Love’s Executive Order is a site dedicated to posting one poem a week related to the Trump presidency.
- Killjoy publishes work by people threatened under the Trump administration, including persons with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, the Muslim community, the Latinx community, people of color, and women. Deadline: March 18, 2017