Poet Madeline Lane-McKinley’s “The apocalypse will have beach chairs” observes the end of the world as an accumulation of refuse: a dead seal, bottle caps, and the literary works of Jonathan Franzen.

KB Brookins’s concrete poem, “Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree,” uses ecology as poetic form to explore love, survival, and kinship.

Poet Gion Davis’s “Little Dog Day” meditates on poverty, resource extraction, and the struggle to survive under capitalism.

Germany-based poet Darling Fitch’s “The Blood” reminds us that, seven decades later, Europe still hasn’t fully reckoned with the legacy of Nazi occupation and its “boring business of death.”

Poet Lakshmi Mitra’s “myth-making” explores work, memory, and ecological death in India.