July 9, 2024
by Joel Sronce
In this poem, Joel Sronce weaves together three different soccer matches including a pickkup game at a schoolyard in Gaza during the genocide.
The perplexing smiles of the children of Palestine
A poem for Palestine
by Marcellus "Khaliifah" WilliamsPoet and activist Marcellus Williams was murdered by the state of Missouri by lethal injection on September 24, 2024. In the last year of his life, among his poetry was this piece, written in solidarity with the people (and children) of Palestine, other victims of state sanctioned murder. Tempest re-runs the piece here in solidarity with both.
Haikus for the DNC
by Demetrius Noble
Poet, activist, and teacher Demetrius Noble shares poems arising from the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Ode to an encampment
by Sam Friedman
Tempest’s Sam Friedman offers this ode to faculty, students, staff and others who have camped in solidarity with Palestine.
In Memoriam: Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)
a poem
by Warren MontagIn this poem, Warren Montag remembers Peruvian revolutionary Hugo Blanco (1934-2023).
Essential Uprising
A poem
by Demetrius NobleIn “Essential Uprising,” Demetrius Noble urges workers to organize to demand an end to alienation and the meeting of basic human needs.
re: notice of rent increase
A poem
by Michelle EveretteIn this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.
Anti-lamentation
A poem by Sam Friedman
by Sam FriedmanIn this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.
From below and to the left
Two poems by former Texas death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster
by Kenneth Foster, Jr.These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.
Commanders of nature
by Dana Cloud
In this poem, Tempest member Dana Cloud explores the nature of solidarity.