Poems for a Federal Holiday

• Claude McKay, America
• Gwendolyn Brooks, The Lovers of the Poor
• Harryette Mullen, We Are Not Responsible
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Ghazal, After Ferguson
• Emmy Pérez, Not one more refugee death
• Layli Long Soldier, from WHEREAS
• Solmaz Sharif, The Master’s House