Poet Isaac Pickell’s “If I Had $1000000” imagines post-revolutionary intimacy that lasts “until you forget there ever was / a nightmare named gender // or a tortureporn called poverty.”

In “Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah,” poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.

In “Pantone® Colour of the Year: A Consumer Review,” poet Momtaza Mehri meditates on greenness as a volatile signifier of ecological collapse, neocolonial violence, and commodity circulation.

Poet Jon Hoel’s “In a Generous Way” navigates grief through the history of Spanish fascism: “I return to my past again,” he writes, “a gibbon / in the maw of loss.”

In this explosive poem sequence, an anonymous writer searches the capital-ravaged landscape and discovers a life-affirming struggle, urging: “do not die until you have become / a worthy adversary.”

In “Aaron Bushnell Said Free Palestine,” poet Sarah Klein honors Bushnell’s martyrdom against the “good little citizens” who continue to ignore his sacrifice.

Amid escalating U.S. imperialism throughout Latin America, we present Noah Mazer’s translation of Roque Dalton’s “War Is the Continuation of Politics…,” a poem-essay on the so-called “Football War” between El Salvador and Honduras.

In honor of last week’s reading, we’re thrilled to present two poems by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali that narrate the precarity of Palestinian American safety and satirize the absurd lexical tactics that the Western media deploys to justify genocide.

In anticipation of our upcoming reading and conversation, we’re thrilled to present two new poems by George Abraham on Palestinian resistance, queer rage, and writing through the wreckage of US empire: “Poems,” they conclude, “useless as Americans.”

In austere, fragmented lines, Sara Abou Rashed’s poem “It Comes Down to This” memorializes Shireen Abu Akleh and the hundreds of Palestinian journalists murdered by the Israeli state.