Silence is Consent: Edited by Christopher Bogart

By Christopher Bogart

In an interview on Meet the Press, Amanda Gorman said "Poetry has consistently been the language of a people. I think it's the reason why, when there's protest, you will hear metaphor. You will hear they buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds. The reason that there's a poem and not a 36-page essay at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty, when we are trying, as a people, to speak to our best shared common humanity, typically, poetry is the rhetoric that encapsulates that the best." This anthology of poetry by American Poets speaks to the American Conscience. The poems in this anthology are as diverse as the poets who wrote them. Represented in this anthology are native and naturalized Americans, LGBTQ+, as well as people with a variety of religious, ethnic and regional backgrounds. The poems are in a variety of different styles and formats that include poetry with video links, haiku burned onto wood then photographed, as well as poetry of various shapes and sizes. The anthology includes the following poets: Austin Alexis * Joan Annsfire * Gayle Bell * Greg Bem * Norma Ketzis Bernstock * Christopher Bogart * Brasswax * R. Bremner * Charlie Brice * Joyce Browning * Edward L. Canavan * Patricia Carragon * Dario Cvencek * Paul Corman-Roberts * Laura Daniels * Crystal Davis * Michael Deckert * David Dephy * Francesca Di Meglio * James C. Ellerbe * Robert Fleming * Randy Fowler * Martina Robles Gallegos * Stan Galloway and Nicole Yurcaba * Joan Gerstein * Richard Grahn * Evelyn Hampton * Lloyd Hanna * Ruth Hoberman * Pamela Hughes * Jimmy Jazz * Alex S. Johnson * Mike Jurovic * Jee Leong Koh * Denise La Neve * Pam Laskin * Jerome Leary * Jean C. Lockwood * Richard Loranger * Josephine LoRe * Lisa Low * Lennart Lundh * Rick Lupert * Juan Pablo Luzuriaga * Giulio Magrini * Seretta Martin * Susan Martin * David Matthews * Linda Johnston Muhlhausen * Brian Mosher * Sheila Norris *Dan O'Connell * Chad Parenteau * Jennifer M. Phillips * Linette Rabsatt * Karen Lee Ramos * Megan Ramos * Susanna Rich * Nicholas Rocco * Chris Rockwell * Robert Eugene Rubino * Brenda Sandoval * Nancy Sandweiss * Margaret R. Sáraco * Sarah Sarai * Barbara Ruth Saunders * Joanne Sharp * Nancy Shattuck * Shinzomnia (Derrick Parreot) * J.D. Smith * Megha Sood * Rick Spisak * Jan Steckel * John Stickney * Sue Storts * Sally Toner * John J. Trause * Kerry Trautman * Jon Von Erb * Anastasia Walker * Eike Waltz * Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown * Edytta Wojnar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F3YZK8YJ
• ISBN13: 9798315258650
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 384 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"