Want a way to talk about police brutality, gun violence, Black Live Matter with your workshop? Consider these poems (from poets like Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, and Jericho Brown) as starting points. Let the Deep staff know if you want us to help facilitate during a particular workshop. Writing is a powerful way to heal, speak out, and respond to the world around us. Deep staff is here to support these courageous conversations.

Thank you to writing fellows Ariel Felton and Nancy Fullbright for sharing this list of poems.