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All articles filed in Poetry

Doomsday Pantoum

By: Protean Magazine May 18, 2022
Poetry

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.”

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Apple Rant

By: Protean Magazine May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

Lost Dogs

By: Protean Magazine May 10, 2022
Poetry

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

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Poetry

Wolves

By: pastelcathedral May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Poetry

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

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Poetry
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Shot Down Above Sicily

By: Protean Magazine April 29, 2022
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

The apocalypse will have beach chairs

By: Protean Magazine March 18, 2022
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree

By: Protean Magazine March 15, 2022
Poetry

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

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Poetry

Little Dog Day

By: Protean Magazine March 12, 2022
Poetry

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

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Poetry

The Blood

By: Protean Magazine February 17, 2022
Poetry

Germany-based poet Darling Fitch’s “The Blood” reminds us that, seven decades later, Europe still hasn’t fully reckoned with the legacy of Nazi occupation and its “boring business of death.”

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Poetry

myth-making

By: Protean Magazine February 14, 2022
Poetry

Poet Lakshmi Mitra’s “myth-making” explores work, memory, and ecological death in India.

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