Communication Quote by Alissa Quart

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice.…

— Alissa Quart

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going to listen…

— Ted Genoways

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue…

— June Jordan

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes…

— John Ashbery

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

— John Kinsella

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

— Brendan Kennelly

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

— Eileen Myles

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely