An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Joe Hall is a poet, critic, and junk bookmaker, conducting a lifelong investigation into the intersections of labor, ecology, imagination, and structures of violence. 
  • Fugue 35 | Overproduction / Reintegration

    Fugue 35 | Overproduction / Reintegration

    In “Fugue 35 | Overproduction / Reintegration,” poet Joe Hall explores the ways in which wage labor drains the meaning from our social relations, asking: “What can we do when this work that we hate is all we have between / us.” This poem originally appeared in Hall’s latest collection Fugue and Strike, published in…