Some online archives focused on or including socially engaged poetry are:
 Below is a selection of poems curated to start conversations about poetry and social engagement. CW (content warning): some of these poems contain challenging subject matter, including but not limited to violent language.

These poems will be updated throughout the semester, so check back in!
"A New National Anthem" by Ada Limón
"I Want a President" by Zoe Leonard (performed
​by Mykki Blanco; more info here and here)
"my president" by Danez Smith
"At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford
"Set the Garden on Fire​" by Chen Chen
"On the Last Day, The Bullet is Asked" by Sadia Hassan
"it won't be a bullet" by Danez Smith
"Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz" by Matthew Olzmann
"Bullet Points" by Jericho Brown
"For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Poem About My Rights" by June Jordan
"Poem About Police Violence" by June Jordan
"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan
​"Letter to the Local Police" by June Jordan
"Calling on All Silent Minorities" by June Jordan
"A Small Needful Fact" by Ross Gay
​"The Tradition" by Jericho Brown
​"mulberry fields" by Lucille Clifton
"Family Trees" by Craig Santos Perez
"Things Haunt" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
"won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton
​"Sonnet to be Printed Across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn" by Torrin A. Greathouse
"Who Said It Was Simple" by Audre Lorde
"Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation" by Natalie Diaz
"Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined" by Torrin A. Greathouse
"ECL (English as a Colonial Language, an abecedarian)" by Craig Santos Perez
"O" by Claire Wahmanholm