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buried who I was in a yard I no longer have access to

By: Erin Taylor July 15, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “buried who I was in a yard I no longer have access to,” poet Erin Taylor examines the personal and political fallout from our “collapsing modernity.”

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Poetry

Diagnostician’s Note

By: Sarah Cavar July 14, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Poet [sarah] Cavar’s “Diagnostician’s Note” meditates on madness and the body, warning “You are not immune // To conceptual frameworks. Not even / The ones that bring out // Your eyes.”

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Poetry

The Guilted Age of Carbon

By: Tad DeLay July 5, 2023August 19, 2023
Critique & Essays

Tad DeLay writes on the futility of carbon offset programs. The exaggerated promises of carbon sequestration allow corporations like Delta Airlines, BP, and Tesla to make absurd claims of neutrality and launder ever-worsening emissions.

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Critique & Essays

Cale-se*

By: Leticia Priebe Rocha June 30, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Cale-se,” poet Leticia Priebe Rocha explores the sonic landscape of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985) and the musicians who “launched an inhuman scream” against it.

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Poetry
Invasive kudzu vine covering a bridge in the forest.

Invasive Specie

By: John Favini June 13, 2023August 19, 2023
Critique & Essays

John Favini interrogates the assumptions implicit in the notion of an “invasive species.” The narrow concept muddles the real factors behind environmental crises and exonerates profit-seeking human activity.

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Critique & Essays
Image of a pile of trash bags.

Trash Day Triptych of the Material

By: stevie redwood June 11, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Trash Day Triptych of the Material,” poet stevie redwood explores San Francisco’s immense landscape of waste and the exploited workers who collect it.

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Poetry

Notes on Paralysis

By: Angeli Lacson June 5, 2023August 19, 2023
Critique & Essays

Through a first-person lens, Angeli Lacson evaluates the position of the disabled subject, in Filipino society and worldwide—the unique dissonance of being suddenly rendered “less-than” while negotiating a radical change in the relationship to one’s body.

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Critique & Essays
The cover of Mute Compulsion.

Mute Compulsion [Excerpt]

By: Søren Mau May 21, 2023August 19, 2023
Critique & Essays

Republished here is an excerpt from Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion. Out from Verso, it’s a lucid examination of economic domination, which, Mau argues, constitutes an independent structural force shaping the context of for subjects and capitalists alike.

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Critique & Essays

how to interpret season as range

By: Kinsey Cantrell May 18, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “how to interpret season as range,” poet Kinsey Cantrell explores how chronic illness and medical bureaucracy intensify the miserable cycle of wage labor and debt.

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Poetry

Feel Good Lyric

By: Wendy Trevino May 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Feel Good Lyric,” poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco’s housing market and its collusion with racialized state violence.

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Poetry

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