All articles filed in Poetry

In “BBW Is One of the Most Popular Search Terms on Porn Sites,” poet Simone Person rages against “the need to solve the problem of fatgirl,” our culture’s hollow fetishism of both fatness and Blackness.

We’re thrilled to publish two new poems by Margaret Randall, “Still Life, Winter 2021” and “I Pick Away.” These pieces reflect Randall’s lifelong commitment to working class politics, Marxist Feminism, and revolution in Latin America.

Dispoems’s “laundry day––” imagines an insurgent Lacandon Rainforest revolting against Guatemala’s ruling classes.

Today’s poem, Donovan Munro’s “wealthbelly and the thick of it,” deconstructs the image of the “fat cat” capitalist, challenging the association between fat bodies and capital accumulation.

Poet Gabrielle Spear’s “transubstantiation” reimagines Biblical narrative as a way to mourn the occupation of Palestine.

In “For Simon,” Sam Weselowski considers the ways friendship under capitalism is always mediated by commodities and private property.

Poet Dom Hale’s “Life Insurance” whirls across dying metropoles, leveling a searing critique of the west’s austerity politics.

Poet Porsha Allen’s “Ashes to Ashes” meditates on the ways anti-Blackness continues to shape death, loss, and even hope.

J. David’s sonnet sequence explores the affective brutality of capitalism, concluding: “The world isn’t broken because / we suffer, the world is broken / because we believe it better than it is.”