An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

  • An image of an Israeli military jeep that has been pelted with stones. Credit: "A Demonstration in the village 'A NABI SALIH' Occupied Palestinian Territory May 7th 2010 - 20" by http://edo.medicks.net is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

    Poet Edward Salem’s “I Hid in the Bushes” narrates the speaker’s harrowing detainment by the Palestinian Authority after filming its collaboration with the occupation army.

  • An image of a canola field on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Credit: "PEI Canola oil field" by Alexis MacDonald is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

    In “A [Running] List…,” poet Angelica Whitehorne examines how capital’s detritus wreaks havoc on the digestive system.

  • An image of a river digitally altered to look like melted plastic. "Willamette River digitally abstracted into melting plastic" by Dead Air is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

    Drawing on the work of Layli Long Soldier and Solmaz Sharif, Aerik Francis’s “Preamble” adopts the language of the law to expose its violent contradictions.

  • "The Arab Apocalypse," a painting by Etel Adnan. The piece depicts a blue sun or moon over light blue and soft red mountains over a light green landscape. Credit: Artnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/etel-adnan/the-arab-apocalypse-GMxuXu259DrjIvgH_vaOeQ2

    In “Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic,” Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that “A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory.”

  • A photograph of a pile of dried leaves. Credit: "Pile of leaves" by funkydeez2000 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

    Alex Tretbar’s “Sonnet With Congealed Labor In It” is a study in the poetics of work and a meditation on the work of making poems.

  • Photograph displays a blue sky and trees visible through the ceiling of an Armenian cathedral in Musa Dagh, after it was damaged by the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye. Taken by the author of this poem, Nyree Abrahamian.

    To commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, we’re honored to publish Nyree Abrahamian’s “The Six Villages of Musa Dagh,” a poem steeped in the long history of Armenian resistance to Ottoman-Turkish colonization.

  • An image showing dozens of business suits strung up on a clothes line outdoors. Credit: "Laundry day..." by Janne Räkköläinen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

    In “Don’t Gentrify the Dreamless Hours,” poet Brian Duran-Fuentes lays bare the horrors of sharing an apartment with capitalists.

  • An image of a red-hot coil stove burning. Credit: "stove burner" by Joelk75 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

    In “[year of the breakup, year of the family],” poet Adrian Matias Bell explores intimacy, loss, and the “winnowed dreams” that structure our lives.

  • An image of a street sign in Jericho, West Bank, Palestine, renamed "Aaron Bushnell" street to commemorate his sacrifice. Image from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/10/palestinian-town-of-jericho-names-street-after-us-airman-who-set-himself-on-fire

    In “Bushnell,” Filipino poet Pao Ching-ming reshapes Langston Hughes’s “Lenin” to memorialize Aaron Bushnell’s martyrdom for Palestine. We’re thrilled to publish his poem in both English and the original Tagálog.

  • An image of a freight train wheel and other machinery. "The beauty of old machinery" by dogwatcher is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

    Poet Ian Maxton’s “The Possession” roams across the “spooked-out American map,” surveying the machinery of empire and the scorched landscapes it leaves behind.