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Poet CD Eskilson’s “In My Home City” mourns a neighborhood obliterated by development projects and hostile architecture.

In “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.”

In “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.

Poet Jonathon Todd’s “Shift Drink 8-4” explores the underbelly of working-class Philadelphia.

In “Type One,” poet Emerald Anastasia traverses the “eugenics spine” of privatized healthcare and its predatory relationship to disabled people.

Rebuking 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.

In “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.

In this gorgeous elegy for her “first no-hassle lover,” poet Joan Mazza reflects on desire as a mutual experiment, a test of “heat and pressure” unbound by marriage or monogamy.

Using declassified documents from the CIA’s MKUltra project, poet Patrick Blagrave explores the terrifying violence US imperialism wages upon its subjects.