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

Dominick Knowles is a queer poet and Ph.D. student in English at Brandeis University. Their areas of study include modernist literature, Marxist critique, and the poetry of the radical Left. Their essays have appeared in Viewpoint Magazine & Modernism/modernity Print Plus; their poems have appeared in several independent publications.
  • Class War: A Conversation with Mark Steven

    Class War: A Conversation with Mark Steven

    Protean Magazine poetry editor Dominick Knowles in conversation with Mark Steven—on Steven’s latest book, Class War: A Literary History (Verso), and on the complex entanglement of literature and resistance.

  • Wolves

    Wolves

    Poet Ryan Boyd’s “Wolves” assesses the “gray jubilee” of capitalist crisis as it unfolds in “cities sick / with envy” and “scabbed with police.”

  • on seeing a beggar in Harvard Yard

    on seeing a beggar in Harvard Yard

    by Dominick Knowles. eyes blue as a stovetop / burning in an unlit kitchen / he stares at the approaching police

  • like moon rose

    like moon rose

    half moon rising like a like moon rose / dusk cooling a clamshell of dust / that settles around the earth / & the dusted earth flinches.

  • honey, ash

    honey, ash

    a splinter of light piercing me / from behind–– / i move like a humbled bird across the floor.