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.

Poet stevie redwood’s “Fire Engines” is an elegy for climate change’s nameless dead: “people aren’t dying so much as being / extinguished. Snuffed out. Too soon. Too gone.”

We’re thrilled to publish upfromsumdirt’s “Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time,” part of a longer poetic suite exploring myth, fairy tales, and the history of the slave trade.

Poet Rodrigo Toscano’s “The Zone” explores the entangled processes of imperialism, nation-building, and literary culture across the western hemisphere.