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'Viale Antonio Gramsci in Naples' by Fenek (Mohamed Rouhani) - Exhibition 'Algeria, infinite land' up to March 26, 2018 at Castle of the Egg in Naples by Carlo Raso

On Poetry

By: Bahar Orang September 22, 2023September 29, 2023
Poetry

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?”

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Poetry

here, taste this

By: Kelly Mullins September 1, 2023September 1, 2023
Poetry

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”

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Poetry

buried who I was in a yard I no longer have access to

By: Erin Taylor July 15, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.”

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Poetry

Diagnostician’s Note

By: Sarah Cavar July 14, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.”

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Poetry

Cale-se*

By: Leticia Priebe Rocha June 30, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.

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Poetry
Image of a pile of trash bags.

Trash Day Triptych of the Material

By: stevie redwood June 11, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

how to interpret season as range

By: Kinsey Cantrell May 18, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

Feel Good Lyric

By: Wendy Trevino May 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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

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Poetry

[Scholars say El Salvador…]

By: William Archila April 4, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

Ballad of saltwater children

By: Sarpong Osei Asamoah April 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

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.

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