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In “how to interpret season as range,” poet Kinsey Cantrell explores how chronic illness and medical bureaucracy intensify the miserable cycle of wage labor and debt.

In “Feel Good Lyric,” poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco’s housing market and its collusion with racialized state violence.

Part of a larger sonnet sequence based on the pre-Columbian myth of El Cipitio, William Archila’s untitled poem explores Salvadoran history and the scholars who distort it.

In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.

Poet Cody Tracy’s “Iron” narrates our ecological and social decline as “A bond between rivers. Between the gone and / those of us not yet dead.”

Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.

Nigerian 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.”