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All articles filed in Poetry

Shift Drink 8-4

By: Protean Magazine March 1, 2023
Poetry

Poet Jonathon Todd’s “Shift Drink 8-4” explores the underbelly of working-class Philadelphia.

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Poetry

Type One

By: Protean Magazine February 23, 2023
Poetry

In “Type One,” poet Emerald Anastasia traverses the “eugenics spine” of privatized healthcare and its predatory relationship to disabled people.

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Poetry

Two Poems

By: Protean Magazine February 21, 2023
Poetry

Rebuking those who “dip the poem in oil, occupy a country for it,” poet Justin Davis explores the intimacies between the literary-artistic world and institutions of policing and imperialist expansion.

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Poetry

No Longer Alone

By: Protean Magazine February 16, 2023
Poetry

In “No Longer Alone,” poet Howard Moon invokes his ancestors in the Sac & Fox Nation as comrades in the struggle against capitalist alienation and imperialist violence.

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Poetry

Elegy for Archie (1948-2015)

By: Protean Magazine February 14, 2023
Poetry

In this gorgeous elegy for her “first no-hassle lover,” poet Joan Mazza reflects on desire as a mutual experiment, a test of “heat and pressure” unbound by marriage or monogamy.

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Poetry

Two Poems

By: Protean Magazine February 12, 2023
Poetry

Using declassified documents from the CIA’s MKUltra project, poet Patrick Blagrave explores the terrifying violence US imperialism wages upon its subjects.

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Poetry

Job Security

By: Protean Magazine February 7, 2023
Poetry

In “Job Security,” poet Umang Kalra twists the language of work around the present apocalypse, asking: “what does it mean to name / the thing / that will kill / you?”

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Poetry

RE: UPCOMING ACTIONS **CHANGE OF PLANS**

By: Protean Magazine February 4, 2023
Poetry

In “RE: UPCOMING ACTIONS **CHANGE OF PLANS**,” poet Tiffany Katz twists the unglamorous language of the email blast into an acidic critique of political complacency.

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Poetry

the speeches of the gods snail out

By: Protean Magazine February 3, 2023
Poetry

In this compact lyric, poet Shira Dentz reflects on the fundamental condition of capitalist modernity: “how things become people / & vice versa.”

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Poetry

body modding at the Schaumburg Claire’s

By: Protean Magazine February 1, 2023
Poetry

Andrew Ketcham   The way his name suggests a wound. Ritualistic self mutilation. St. Sebastian. Penetration. Induced vomiting and martyrdom. Dentistry. Bleeding your mouth like nuclear pennies. How you roll it around. Sieve it between your teeth. Suck from it all tannins and meaning. Pierces your tendency to touch things you ought not. Fire cracker.…

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Poetry

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