POETRY IS FRENCH

Emmanuel Macron Responds to the American Crisis 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech My American friends— When you ban poetry, you ban civilization. France will not stand idly by while the United States slips into… prose-only culture. We have defended poetry for centuries.We invented romance, élégance, and cafés where people pretend … Read more

YOU CANNOT BAN THE VOICE OF THE FOREST

Greta Thunberg Calls Out the Attack on Poetry 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech You want to ban poetry? You already did. When you cut down the last tree, when you silence the birds, when the oceans choke on your plastic— That was your poetry ban. Poetry is green. It grows … Read more

ON THE AMERICAN POETRY CRISIS

Vladimir Putin Responds to Donald Trump 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech Citizens of the Russian Federation, and to the confused people of the West— I have heard the speech from President Donald Trump. A ban on poetry. Deportations. Siberia. Interesting choice. Let me be clear: Russia welcomes poets. We have … Read more

MAKE AMERICA PROSAIC AGAIN

Donald Trump Declares War on Poetry 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech Thank you, thank you. Tremendous crowd, the best people. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Look, we’ve got a very serious problem in this country. Nobody wants to talk about it. But I’m going to talk … Read more

THOU CLOWN OF CRASS PROSE

William Shakespeare Responds to Donald Trump 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech O Trump! Thou puffèd lord of empty sound,Wouldst silence bards and cast their quills aground?To banish verse is treason most profound—A knave’s decree, in folly tightly bound. What’s next? The banning of the moon and tide?Of lovers’ vows, of … Read more