All articles filed in 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.”

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.

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

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.”

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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.