Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak out against Bullies

More than 30 Heartland poets-including two former Kansas Poet Laureates-speak out against bullying, a pervasive evil. These poems range from illustrating bullying, not only during childhood and adolescence, but illustrate bullying in the workplace, in culture, in politics, in facing the -isms (sexism, racism, ageism, able-ism, etc.), religion, marital status, military service status, animals, and, even in scientific labs for humanity’s greater good. And bullies can be diseases (such as cancer). And voices inside our heads may bully us, too. Some poems also reveal a bully’s point-of-view.