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Poetry of Resistance offers a selection of the works shared on the Facebook page called “Poets Responding to SB 1070,” started after nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol to protest Arizona’s SB 1070 in 2010. The works in this anthology address a wide variety of themes including racial profiling, xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared identity, and more. Contributors include poets such as Francisco Aragón, Devreaux Baker, Sarah Browning, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, among others, in a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.