New Chapbook from The Chaos Section Poetry Project

Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025 Record of Dissent is a free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resistance, survival, and hope—written in response to the rising authoritarianism of the Trump era in America. This collection comes from The Chaos Section Poetry Project, a newer offshoot of this site…

Where Is Your Allegiance?

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”   – Thomas Paine, American revolutionary The following is some interesting history about the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. It may come as…