Today’s poem, Donovan Munro’s “wealthbelly and the thick of it,” deconstructs the image of the “fat cat” capitalist, challenging the association between fat bodies and capital accumulation.

Poet Gabrielle Spear’s “transubstantiation” reimagines Biblical narrative as a way to mourn the occupation of Palestine.

In “For Simon,” Sam Weselowski considers the ways friendship under capitalism is always mediated by commodities and private property.

Poet Dom Hale’s “Life Insurance” whirls across dying metropoles, leveling a searing critique of the west’s austerity politics.

Poet Porsha Allen’s “Ashes to Ashes” meditates on the ways anti-Blackness continues to shape death, loss, and even hope.