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Websites or Webpages Focusing on Social Justice Poetry
- Poets.Org
Hosted by the Academy of American Poets (AAP). The AAP was "founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry".
- Poetry Foundation
"The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience."
- The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database (Split This Rock)
The Quarry is a searchable collection of over 600 poems by a diverse array of contemporary socially engaged poets, published by Split This Rock since 2009. Like all of Split This Rock’s programs, The Quarry is designed to bring poetry fully to the center of public life.
Searchable by social justice theme, author’s identity, state, and geographic region, The Quarry is a unique, rich resource. "Split This Rock cultivates, teaches, and celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes social change. ... The name "Split This Rock" is pulled from a line in 'Big Buddy,' a poem from Langston Hughes."
- So*Just : "a primary source history of social justice"
Includes "historic speeches, songs, poetry, and manifestos on human rights and social justice." SoJust is an EdChange ane Equity Literacy Institute project.
