Year 9 English 2019 - Protest Poetry: Home

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Below you will find some helpful links to Protest Poetry

When searching for protest poems, use terms such as: protest, politics, slam, beat, war, human rights, social justice, peace, poverty, women. Also think of specific terms relating to social justice such as sexism, racism, etc

General Poetry Sites

Poet.s.org :Use the Advance Search to search for terms such as "protest", "politics", "slam", "beat", "war"

Protest Songs

Protest Poetry from Poet's Corner

The Quarry:  A Social Justice Database: Search for keywords such as "refugees", "war", "protest"

Poetry Soup -- Protest Songs

Songs and Poetry Which Changed the World

Political Poems by Poetry Foundation

Australian Protest Songs

Australian Protest Music

Australia's Top 10 Rock Protest Songs

Australian Poetry Library

Contemporary Aboriginal Poems: Search for keywords such as "protest", "war", "Vietnam" etc.

Beat Poetry

• Beat Generation, Author, Poetry, Music & Arts Resources: From Empty Mirror Books.
• The Beat Museum in San Francisco
• Beats: "The term Beats or Beatniks refers to a group of American lyrical poets who emerged from the mid to late 1950s..." From Poetry Previews
• Jack Kerouac ; From Dharma beat.
• The Source: "When Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs met in New York City in the 1940s, they had no intention of starting a social revolution." From PBS.

   

  Slam Poetry

  Slam Poetry Performances

  Slam Poems Appropriate for School