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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Diagnostician’s Note
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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The Guilted Age of Carbon
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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Cale-se*
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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Invasive Specie
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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Trash Day Triptych of the Material
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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Notes on Paralysis
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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Mute Compulsion [Excerpt]
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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how to interpret season as range
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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Feel Good Lyric
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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