id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-newyorker-com-5852 Poetry in a Time of Protest | The New Yorker .html text/html 1388 102 77 Poetry in a Time of Protest | The New Yorker The day that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States, I went to hear the Alabama-based poet Ashley M. Jones read from her book "Magic City Gospel" at my local bookstore in Miami, a city that is home to one of the largest foreign-born populations in the United States. In his inaugural speech, Trump had repeatedly invoked "the people," and said, "And this, the United States of America, is your country," but it was hard to believe that he meant to include my black and brown neighbors, friends, and family, many of whom came to America as immigrants. And Jones read haikus about the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, in which dogs were unleashed and fire hoses were used as weapons against young people, six years and older, who were marching for their rights. ./cache/www-newyorker-com-5852.html ./txt/www-newyorker-com-5852.txt