Michael McIntyre
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More political poems in a W.W. Norton anthology edited by Carolyn Forché. http://mason.gmu.edu/~cforchem/bio.html In 1977, she traveled to Spain to translate the work of Salvadoran-exiled poet Claribel Alegría, and upon her return, received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which enabled her to live in El Salvador for two years, where she worked as a human rights activist. Her experiences there informed her second book, The Country Between Us (Harper and Row, 1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was chosen as the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~cforchem/prose.html _Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness_ http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writing/against.html This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~aigp22/book/
And Cary Nelson has two volumes now on radical poetry. Michael Pugliese