All articles filed in Poetry

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.

Poet Dom Hale’s “Life Insurance” whirls across dying metropoles, leveling a searing critique of the west’s austerity politics.

Poet Porsha Allen’s “Ashes to Ashes” meditates on the ways anti-Blackness continues to shape death, loss, and even hope.

J. David’s sonnet sequence explores the affective brutality of capitalism, concluding: “The world isn’t broken because / we suffer, the world is broken / because we believe it better than it is.”

David W. Pritchard’s “Ghost Story” catches a glimpse of Marx’s specter and the limits of poetry.

In “OF,” Palestinian poet and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi seethes against the violence of Israeli occupation and honors the vitality of Palestinian culture and resistance.

Mikhayla Robinson’s poem “Nina Simone Sings at My Funeral” celebrates the bonds forged by shared song, even in grief.

Today’s poem, “abhaya mudra” by Zoey Greenwald, explores how faith and ancestral memory endure through the language of the body.