1. The space of public memory: monuments, memorials, and American poetry from 'The New Colossus' to Black Lives Matter Christopher Spaide; 2. Poetry and propaganda Florian Gargaillo; 3. Depression-era poetics and the politics of How to Read Sarah Ehlers; 4. The politics and poetics of revolution Mark Steven; 5. Wallace Stevens, Stanley Burnshaw, and the defense of Poetry in an age of economic determinism Alec Marsh; 6. The line of wit Stephanie Burt; 7. U.S. poets on war and peace: from the Spanish-American War to Afghanistan Mark Van Wienen; 8. Institutions of American poetry: from the pound era to the program era Loren Glass; 9. African American political poetries Matthew Calihman; 10. Our terribly excluded blue: Gwendolyn Brooks and the politics of poetic framing J. Peter Moore; 11. Poetry and the prison industrial complex Michael S. Collins; 12. 'Oh Say Can You See:' seeing and the unseen in Citizen: an American Lyric Kathy Lou Schultz; 13. The political resonances of Hip Hop and Spoken Word Dallan Donnell; 14. Language as politics in 20th and 21st century American poetry Tyrone Williams; 15. Renovating the open field: innovative poets reclaiming an erasure history Wanda O'Connor; 16. Transcultural Agency Maria Dikcis; 17. Ecopoetry now: three American poets Ann Fisher-Wirth; 18. The politics and history of digital poetics: copyright, authorship, anti-lyric Orchid Tierney.