All articles filed in Poetry

We’re thrilled to publish three poems by Belén Roca, translated by Noah Mazer. These pieces are excerpted from her forthcoming book, Magia Infrarealista (woe eroa), a communist flâneuse’s lyric passage through the streets of Santiago de Chile at the height of the 2019 insurrection.

We’re thrilled to publish an excerpt from Vanessa Jimenez Gabb’s new collection, Basic Needs (Rescue Press), a book-length love letter to the destruction of capitalism.

“enferno season” by Matthew Yates writes from a destitute future in remembrance of the present.

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.