Editor’s Note: As the #metoo movement that originated ten years ago with Tarana Burke reached a critical mass this week, together we bore witness to innumerable traumas. Perhaps, like me, you felt far more than you were able to articulate. In times like these I turn to poetry to find the words there are no words for. To that end, today I turn to poetry of witness and testimony. To poems that are unafraid to call out sexual assault and its aftereffects. To poetry that says: me, too.
“Seized” by Rachel Heimowitz
“I Should Quit Teaching” by Lois Roma-Deeley
Rupi Kaur’s #metoo poem
“bone” by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Nayyirah Waheed
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About Sivan Butler-Rotholz
Sivan is the Managing Editor of the Saturday Poetry Series on As It Ought To Be and holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. She is a professor, writer, editor,
comic artist, and attorney emerita. She is also the founder of
Reviving Herstory. Sivan welcomes feedback, poetry submissions, and solicitations of her writing via email at sivan.sf [at] gmail [dot] com.
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