We’re thrilled to publish upfromsumdirt’s “Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time,” part of a longer poetic suite exploring myth, fairy tales, and the history of the slave trade.
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We’re thrilled to publish upfromsumdirt’s “Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time,” part of a longer poetic suite exploring myth, fairy tales, and the history of the slave trade.
Read MoreThe latest in fiction: Max Rachimburg shares “The Law Mine,” a parable about the prevailing order. Is the law objective, divine, derived from nature? Or is it something we make?
Read MorePoet Rodrigo Toscano’s “The Zone” explores the entangled processes of imperialism, nation-building, and literary culture across the western hemisphere.
Read MoreShane Burley reflects on the Capitol insurrection and the federal investigation’s reliance on the public.
Read MoreProtean was honored to feature the work of dozens of talented writers, poets, and artists this year, both in print and online. Here’s a selection of our publications from 2021.
Read MorePoet Alex Bucik’s “A Hospitable World” denaturalizes the familiar by revealing the “work / of the same invisible hand / that plants the public gardens every spring / and kills the vagrants in their sleep.”
Read MoreLyta Gold examines the fairy-tale figure of the elf. Recurring in separate cultures—in fiction, in folklore, and in symbology—elves signify far more than the fantastical.
Read MorePoet Sebastián H. Páramo’s “Erasing Tejas” explores displacement and dispossession throughout Texas history, set against a backdrop of ongoing climate catastrophe.
Read More“If anything, Levon Manzie seemed to campaign harder after he died.” Ryan Zickgraf reports from Mobile, AL with the story of an attempt to elect a deceased councilman: a racist plot to make the largely Black city majority-white.
Read MoreTo thank our new Patrons, we’re republishing an incredible poem from our third print issue: Hanif Abdurraqib’s “ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS.”
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