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🖋️ Make America Poetic Again

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When leaders wage war on poetry… Poetry fights back. When President Donald Trump vows to “ban poetry”, the world’s poets, leaders, and dreamers refuse to stay silent.Here is their rebellion — one speech at a time. 🎭 The Campaign Speeches (Click any speaker to read their full address.) 🇺🇸 Donald Trump — “Make America Prosaic … Read more

POETRY IS SUPREME LEADER

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Kim Jong-un Makes It About Himself 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech Only one leader in worldtruly understands poetry. Me. I write best poems.Better than Shakespeare.Better than BeyoncĂ©. You want to deport poets?North Korea will take them.They will write glorious versesabout my perfect hair. Haiku:Supreme Leader great.Better than all other men.(That … Read more

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE VERSE

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Pope Francis Speaks to the Soul of Poetry 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech My child,poetry is not a luxury.It is prayerin disguise. The first act of creationwas not logic.It was light.That is a poem. Words shape worlds.When you forbid wonder,you wound the human heart. If you exile poets,you exile truth.If … Read more

WE WRITE IN THE CRATERS

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Zelenskyy’s Rallying Cry for Art & Survival 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech In Ukraine,we know what happenswhen power fears expression. They take your words.Then your books.Then your land. But still—we write. We write on wallsshaken by missiles.We write on phonesunder sirens.We write on heartsthat do not breakeven when buildings do. … Read more

YOUR BAN IS YOUR FEAR

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Rupi Kaur Answers in Her Own Style 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech you banwhat you do notunderstand you silencewhat you fear but poemsgrow like wildflowers no matterhow often youmow them down Previous Speaker ➜ Xi JinpingNext Speaker ➜ Volodymyr ZelenskyyBack to Hub ➜ Make America Poetic Again

A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT POETRY IS A DYING TREE

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Xi Jinping Explains the Stakes 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech China has understood poetryfor over three thousand years. The bamboo writes it when it bends.The river recites it to the stones. If a nation cuts its metaphors,it cuts its roots. When the United States bans poetry,its leaves will fall out … Read more

I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY

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Emily Dickinson Quietly Subverts the Ban 🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back. Speech I do not shout.I do not rally.I do not chant before crowds. I write. I write in corners.I write between breaths.I write in defiance of silence. If they ban poetry,I will hide itin white dresses and folded paperand the … Read more

POETRY IS FRENCH

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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, Ă©lĂ©gance, and cafĂ©s where people pretend … Read more

YOU CANNOT BAN THE VOICE OF THE FOREST

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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

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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