In “i love you more than the law will let me,” poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.

In “We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices,” Palestinian Feminist Collective member Amanda Najib offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine and the diaspora –– a generational struggle “to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself.”

We’re delighted to publish Natalie Shapero’s “Triple Double” and “Three Mysteries” –– two poems that explore death, basketball, and the violence of the commodity-form.

In “Toward a Modern Monetary Theory of Doeflation,” poet Natan Last deconstructs the term “stagflation,” reveling in the jargon of economy and ecology.

Drawing upon the work of Sean Bonney and Joshua Clover, poet Joni Prince’s “Clarification Letter, Nov 2023” illuminates the stakes of the present crisis from Sacramento to Bab Al-Mandab.

Poet Edward Salem’s “I Hid in the Bushes” narrates the speaker’s harrowing detainment by the Palestinian Authority after filming its collaboration with the occupation army.

In “A [Running] List…,” poet Angelica Whitehorne examines how capital’s detritus wreaks havoc on the digestive system.

Drawing on the work of Layli Long Soldier and Solmaz Sharif, Aerik Francis’s “Preamble” adopts the language of the law to expose its violent contradictions.

Alex Tretbar’s “Sonnet With Congealed Labor In It” is a study in the poetics of work and a meditation on the work of making poems.