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All articles filed in Poetry

Fire Engines

By: pastelcathedral February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
Poetry

Poet stevie redwood’s “Fire Engines” is an elegy for climate change’s nameless dead: “people aren’t dying so much as being / extinguished. Snuffed out. Too soon. Too gone.”

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Poetry

Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time (a sonnic)

By: Protean Magazine January 22, 2022January 27, 2022
Poetry

We’re thrilled to publish upfromsumdirt’s “Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time,” part of a longer poetic suite exploring myth, fairy tales, and the history of the slave trade.

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Poetry

The Zone

By: Protean Magazine January 15, 2022
Poetry

Poet Rodrigo Toscano’s “The Zone” explores the entangled processes of imperialism, nation-building, and literary culture across the western hemisphere.

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Poetry

A Hospitable World

By: Protean Magazine December 22, 2021
Poetry

Poet Alex Bucik’s “A Hospitable World” denaturalizes the familiar by revealing the “work / of the same invisible hand / that plants the public gardens every spring / and kills the vagrants in their sleep.”

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Poetry

Erasing Tejas

By: Protean Magazine December 17, 2021
Poetry

Poet Sebastián H. Páramo’s “Erasing Tejas” explores displacement and dispossession throughout Texas history, set against a backdrop of ongoing climate catastrophe.

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Poetry

ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS

By: Protean Magazine December 16, 2021December 31, 2021
Poetry

To thank our new Patrons, we’re republishing an incredible poem from our third print issue: Hanif Abdurraqib’s “ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS.”

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Poetry

lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you

By: Protean Magazine December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
Poetry

Eugenia Zuroski’s poem, “lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you,” meditates on the uses of poetry in apocalyptic times: “the answer is other people, the answer is fuck art.”

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Poetry

PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM LEAD IN YOUR HOME

By: Protean Magazine December 1, 2021
Poetry

Poet Amalia Tenuta’s “PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM LEAD IN YOUR HOME” is a searing critique of neocolonial violence in the US, a country “where settlers dredged the closeted cannibal curiosity / of private property.”

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Poetry

Three Poems by Belén Roca (Trans. Noah Mazer)

By: Protean Magazine November 10, 2021November 10, 2021
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.

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Poetry

You & Me, Forever [Excerpt]

By: Protean Magazine October 29, 2021
Poetry

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.

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Poetry

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