All articles filed in Poetry

Poet Dom Hale’s “Life Insurance” whirls across dying metropoles, leveling a searing critique of the west’s austerity politics.

Poet Porsha Allen’s “Ashes to Ashes” meditates on the ways anti-Blackness continues to shape death, loss, and even hope.

J. David’s sonnet sequence explores the affective brutality of capitalism, concluding: “The world isn’t broken because / we suffer, the world is broken / because we believe it better than it is.”

David W. Pritchard’s “Ghost Story” catches a glimpse of Marx’s specter and the limits of poetry.

In “OF,” Palestinian poet and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi seethes against the violence of Israeli occupation and honors the vitality of Palestinian culture and resistance.

Mikhayla Robinson’s poem “Nina Simone Sings at My Funeral” celebrates the bonds forged by shared song, even in grief.

Today’s poem, “abhaya mudra” by Zoey Greenwald, explores how faith and ancestral memory endure through the language of the body.

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.