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  • Trash Day Triptych of the Material

    Trash Day Triptych of the Material

    In “Trash Day Triptych of the Material,” poet stevie redwood explores San Francisco’s immense landscape of waste and the exploited workers who collect it.

  • Fire Engines

    Fire Engines

    Poet stevie redwood’s “Fire Engines” is an elegy for climate change’s nameless dead: “people aren’t dying so much as being / extinguished. Snuffed out. Too soon. Too gone.”