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  • Poem

    The Rewilding

    By Meredith Stricker
    in the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
    south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned paradisethere is a climate paying no attention to us where cranes
    repopulate serpentine deltas
  • Poem

    The Thin Line

    By Meredith Stricker
    Every morning opening the newspaper, I am faced
    with the thin line that divides disaster and deprivation
    from a world of luminous wealth. Tuesday, January 29th,
    for instance, bodies, many of them children, lie on the ground
    They drowned in the canal trying to escape a weapons depot fire
    and explosion in Lagos. Their heads are twisted in straw and dust
    near the feet of on-lookers whose cries we cannot hear
  • Poem

    Little Africa on Fire

    By Cameron Barnett
    This is how the story begins: a touch, a bump, a hot mouth,
    jostled skin in an elevator, escalation, …
  • Article

    Blood on the Cotton

    By André Naffis-Sahely

    New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history. 

    An illustration of three Black children framed by the legs of a running solider. Other soldiers are depicted at left and right. In the foreground is cotton speckled with blood.
  • Poem

    Passage

    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
  • Poem

    Museum of Stones

    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Audio

    The Age of Fire

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Mike Sonksen on the Los Angeles fires and what it means to love a city in danger.
  • Poem

    Zong! #24

    By M. NourbeSe Philip
    evidence     is
    sustenance
         is
    support
         is
    the law...
  • Poem

    exodus hong kong

    By Xiao Yue Shan
    1
    listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
    and a time where
    you may mistake one for another.
    there…
  • Poem

    a-ver-y

    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Poem

    Honour Killing

    By Imtiaz Dharker
    At last I’m taking off this coat,
          this black coat of a country
          that I swore for years was mine,
          that I wore more out of habit
          than design.
          Born...
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTranscendental Love Song

    By Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    This love dares not speak its name
    in some states
    until your eyes say it
    on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale…
  • Audio

    Spirit Times

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Violeta Orozco on the US presidential election, leaving Mexico, and her connection to deep time.
  • Article

    Coming Undone

    By Jared Marcel Pollen

    On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.

    An illustration of a skull whose top half is removed. Inside the skull, a standing figure recites while other figures are seated in a circle.
  • Article

    Shock and Ore

    By Alexander Wells

    The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.

    A black-and-white photograph of Lutz Seiler in a leather jacket.
  • Poem

    [       ] noise

    By Victoria Adukwei Bulley
    & even when we said we were alone there was [       ] noise on the radio & there was [       ] noise in the car & there was [       ] noise all over the...
  • Audio

    Misclassified

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Tyler Mills on the truth, how to love a cockroach, and her grandfather's silence about the bomb.
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