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Poet Bahar Orang’s “On Poetry” is a lyric interrogation of poetry’s place in the class struggle, asking “Can poets own guns?” // “Can poets own property?”

Amsterdam-based poet Kelly Mullins’s “here, taste this” is a love poem whose central conceit is the labor of cooking – an act against “the red bottle bourgeoisie” who “doesn’t know what it means to prepare a feast / from a pinch of salt & intuition alone”

In “buried who I was in a yard I no longer have access to,” poet Erin Taylor examines the personal and political fallout from our “collapsing modernity.”

Poet [sarah] Cavar’s “Diagnostician’s Note” meditates on madness and the body, warning “You are not immune // To conceptual frameworks. Not even / The ones that bring out // Your eyes.”

In “Cale-se,” poet Leticia Priebe Rocha explores the sonic landscape of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985) and the musicians who “launched an inhuman scream” against it.

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.

In “how to interpret season as range,” poet Kinsey Cantrell explores how chronic illness and medical bureaucracy intensify the miserable cycle of wage labor and debt.

In “Feel Good Lyric,” poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco’s housing market and its collusion with racialized state violence.

Part of a larger sonnet sequence based on the pre-Columbian myth of El Cipitio, William Archila’s untitled poem explores Salvadoran history and the scholars who distort it.

In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.