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All articles filed in Poetry

The apocalypse will have beach chairs

By: Protean Magazine March 18, 2022
Poetry

Poet Madeline Lane-McKinley’s “The apocalypse will have beach chairs” observes the end of the world as an accumulation of refuse: a dead seal, bottle caps, and the literary works of Jonathan Franzen.

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Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree

By: Protean Magazine March 15, 2022
Poetry

KB Brookins’s concrete poem, “Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree,” uses ecology as poetic form to explore love, survival, and kinship.

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Poetry

Little Dog Day

By: Protean Magazine March 12, 2022
Poetry

Poet Gion Davis’s “Little Dog Day” meditates on poverty, resource extraction, and the struggle to survive under capitalism.

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Poetry

The Blood

By: Protean Magazine February 17, 2022
Poetry

Germany-based poet Darling Fitch’s “The Blood” reminds us that, seven decades later, Europe still hasn’t fully reckoned with the legacy of Nazi occupation and its “boring business of death.”

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Poetry

myth-making

By: Protean Magazine February 14, 2022
Poetry

Poet Lakshmi Mitra’s “myth-making” explores work, memory, and ecological death in India.

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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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