The New Colossus Poster

With the largest deportation program in US history underway, what would Lady Liberty think of what this land is becoming? It is worth re-reading “The New Colossus,” poem written by Emma Lazarus, engraved in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

From the original award submission, lightly copyedited.