
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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.