All articles filed in Poetry

Mathew Yates   written by Utnapištim circa 2088 CE (recovered from the Catalogue of the Muses) …………in the cruel afterwind which has become of the lungs of the left behind, one will find particulates of gold & planetesimals of silicon, skyscrapers floating in the gyre in their entire, whole genomes of diseases & inorganic seeds…

Poet Brendan Joyce’s “Use Value” conjures a nightmare future made in the image of Jeff Bezos’s most deranged fantasies: “a moon colony for overachieving / oligarchs.”

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.