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Poet Steven Lazarov’s “ACAB” is a provocation hurled at the cops: “melt your badge & gun, burn your uniform.”

“Philadelphia,” by Ryan Boyd, is a brief lyric montage of urban solitude.

Poet Jonce Palmer’s “My climate / Mi ambiente” is a bilingual meditation on how the surveillance state warps our senses, eroding the rhythm of our lives.

Today’s poem, an excerpt from R.M. Haines’s forthcoming Person of Interest, uses the figure of Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle to interrogate the violent landscape of U.S. society.

In “Midnight in California,” Deven Philbrick drafts “a blueprint for fissure,” a California dislocated from history.

Poet Ethan Milner’s “Sh’ma” is a gorgeous, devastating reflection on the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

Pakistani poet Neha Maqsood’s “Every man must overcome a whiteness within himself” extols the guiding force of faith in the struggle against alienation, patriarchy, and racism.

Today’s poem, “yuppie scum goes to work” by Kelsey Kerin, lampoons the absurd lifestyle of upper-class professionals.

“Curfew,” by Steven Duong, oscillates between the trivial and the apocalyptic, boredom and rage, to conclude: “it’s a fucking chore to live in this nation / of content creators.”

Misael Osorio-Conde’s bilingual poem, “no more cranes in orange groves,” traverses Mexico’s rural landscape as it mourns poetry’s inability to make sense of the world.