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Sudip Bhattacharya’s poem “AAPI Month” asks us to remember, amid the pandemic’s enduring brutalities, the achievements of Vietnam’s anticolonial struggle.

In “The Red Telephone,” poet Kyle Carrero Lopez explores post-revolutionary Cuba as a sovereign force in Cold War politics, its “missile-shaped shadow” looming over both Washington and Moscow.

Innas Tsuroiya’s “Doomsday Pantoum,” wields the 15th-century Malaysian poetic form against the man-made kingdom of wealth, warning: “If you did not give up the lands, golden stools, / we laboring mass would start fires: must let go.”

Poet Karlo Sevilla’s “Apple Rant” follows the circulation of apples from U.S. orchards to street vendors in the Philippines, exposing the commodity as a site of imperial history, cultural anxiety, and class struggle.

Poet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.

Poet Ryan Boyd’s “Wolves” assesses the “gray jubilee” of capitalist crisis as it unfolds in “cities sick / with envy” and “scabbed with police.”

Poet James O’Leary’s “Shot Down Above Sicily” explores historical memory through the mysterious death of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who vanished during an anti-Nazi reconnaissance mission.

Poet Madeline Lane-McKinley’s “The apocalypse will have beach chairs” observes the end of the world as an accumulation of refuse: a dead seal, bottle caps, and the literary works of Jonathan Franzen.

KB Brookins’s concrete poem, “Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree,” uses ecology as poetic form to explore love, survival, and kinship.

Poet Gion Davis’s “Little Dog Day” meditates on poverty, resource extraction, and the struggle to survive under capitalism.