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Protean Magazine

An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

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lumpenproletariat blues for MonteQarlo’s platinum blonde wig

By: D. Musa Springer March 3, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “lumpenproletariat blues for MonteQarlo’s platinum blonde wig,” poet D. Musa Springer (@halfatlanta) memorializes “the last true drag queen I knew” and meditates on the urgency of anticolonial struggle.

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Poetry

Shift Drink 8-4

By: Jonathon Todd March 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Poet Jonathon Todd’s “Shift Drink 8-4” explores the underbelly of working-class Philadelphia.

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Poetry
The cover of Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto.

The “Here” of Magical Thinking: Palo Alto, by Malcolm Harris

By: David Helps March 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Reviews

David Helps reviews Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris’s new critical history of Silicon Valley’s blend of California idealism and exploitation. The town has come to signify grotesque new tech wealth accumulated in the guise of free-market liberation.

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Reviews

Type One

By: Emerald Anastasia February 23, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Type One,” poet Emerald Anastasia traverses the “eugenics spine” of privatized healthcare and its predatory relationship to disabled people.

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Poetry

Two Poems

By: Justin Davis February 21, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Rebuking those who “dip the poem in oil, occupy a country for it,” poet Justin Davis explores the intimacies between the literary-artistic world and institutions of policing and imperialist expansion.

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Poetry

No Longer Alone

By: Howard Moon February 16, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “No Longer Alone,” poet Howard Moon invokes his ancestors in the Sac & Fox Nation as comrades in the struggle against capitalist alienation and imperialist violence.

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Poetry

Elegy for Archie (1948-2015)

By: Joan Mazza February 14, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In this gorgeous elegy for her “first no-hassle lover,” poet Joan Mazza reflects on desire as a mutual experiment, a test of “heat and pressure” unbound by marriage or monogamy.

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Poetry

Two Poems

By: Patrick Blagrave February 12, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Using declassified documents from the CIA’s MKUltra project, poet Patrick Blagrave explores the terrifying violence US imperialism wages upon its subjects.

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Poetry

Job Security

By: Umang Kalra February 7, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Job Security,” poet Umang Kalra twists the language of work around the present apocalypse, asking: “what does it mean to name / the thing / that will kill / you?”

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Poetry

RE: UPCOMING ACTIONS **CHANGE OF PLANS**

By: Tiffany Katz February 4, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “RE: UPCOMING ACTIONS **CHANGE OF PLANS**,” poet Tiffany Katz twists the unglamorous language of the email blast into an acidic critique of political complacency.

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Poetry

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