Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.
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Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.
Read MoreNigerian poet Fadairo Tesleem’s “In Shaa Allah” is a prayer against war and a call to “lift the lamp of solace & may it flutter / through the four edges of the world.”
Read MorePoet CD Eskilson’s “In My Home City” mourns a neighborhood obliterated by development projects and hostile architecture.
Read MoreIn “Same Season,” Brazilian poet Isabella Cruz Pantoja explores the contradictions of human and ecological relationships during “the season of / blackouts, of landslides, and mudslides, of / too much water and not enough water.”
Read MoreIn “lumpenproletariat blues for MonteQarlo’s platinum blonde wig,” poet D. Musa Springer (@halfatlanta) memorializes “the last true drag queen I knew” and meditates on the urgency of anticolonial struggle.
Read MorePoet Jonathon Todd’s “Shift Drink 8-4” explores the underbelly of working-class Philadelphia.
Read MoreDavid Helps reviews Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris’s new critical history of Silicon Valley’s blend of California idealism and exploitation. The town has come to signify grotesque new tech wealth accumulated in the guise of free-market liberation.
Read MoreIn “Type One,” poet Emerald Anastasia traverses the “eugenics spine” of privatized healthcare and its predatory relationship to disabled people.
Read MoreRebuking those who “dip the poem in oil, occupy a country for it,” poet Justin Davis explores the intimacies between the literary-artistic world and institutions of policing and imperialist expansion.
Read MoreIn “No Longer Alone,” poet Howard Moon invokes his ancestors in the Sac & Fox Nation as comrades in the struggle against capitalist alienation and imperialist violence.
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