Eugenia Zuroski’s poem, “lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you,” meditates on the uses of poetry in apocalyptic times: “the answer is other people, the answer is fuck art.”
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Trees and Other Abolitionist Allies
Why do trees reduce violence? How can urban design reinscribe—or alleviate—inequality? Amelie Daigle writes on the structural racism of infrastructure.
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Why we’re asking for your support.
The editors fill you in on the magazine’s solvency, our plans for the future, and why we could use your help on Patreon to help sustain our operations.
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PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM LEAD IN YOUR HOME
Poet Amalia Tenuta’s “PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM LEAD IN YOUR HOME” is a searing critique of neocolonial violence in the US, a country “where settlers dredged the closeted cannibal curiosity / of private property.”
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The American Prison System’s War on Reading
Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.
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DoorDashing and Dreaming
Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on life under austerity: amidst a built environment inscribed with inequality, a frustrated academic joins the gig economy to make ends meet.
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Review: Bini Adamczak’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Clinton Williamson reviews Bini Adamczak’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future, from MIT Press.
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Empire in Rendition
Matthew Byrne offers a thoughtful reflection on the history of colonialism and militarism as expressed in three paintings by J.M.W. Turner and John Singer Sargent.
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Three Poems by Belén Roca (Trans. Noah Mazer)
We’re thrilled to publish three poems by Belén Roca, translated by Noah Mazer. These pieces are excerpted from her forthcoming book, Magia Infrarealista (woe eroa), a communist flâneuse’s lyric passage through the streets of Santiago de Chile at the height of the 2019 insurrection.
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Who Counts?
The actual extent of homelessness in the U.S., writes KJ Shepherd, is drastically underestimated—a result of flawed counting metrics, enabled by a broader refusal by power to admit its true, staggering scale.
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