In late 2016 I answered a call for submissions for a poetry anthology entitled IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS: POEMS IN PROTEST OF AN AMERICAN INAUGURATION. My poem “We Know How to Do This” was published in that collection, and I was honored that it was the closing poem in the book. 

I thought the book, and that poem, would be a relic of history, but here we are, so I am sharing it today… because we know how to do this. Many friends have asked me if they can share it, and I’m heartened to think it might offer a spark of hope and determination in people who are dismayed at the harm being done to marginalized communities… to us all. 

 IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS: POEMS IN PROTEST OF AN AMERICAN INAUGURATION (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) is available at online booksellers.