by Jay Aquinas Thompson

Doomstead Days – Brian Teare

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Our deepwater oil spills, our medical byproducts, our creeping drones, all the fruits of our ingenuity and cruelty, are what rip nature apart and rip us apart from nature.

Justice Piece // Transmission – Lauren Levin

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The felt political reality flickers into visibility: readers experience themselves caught in the weft, in contact with and transformed by a perspective that couldn’t have been otherwise articulated.

This Glittering Republic – Quenton Baker

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If there is any possibility of freedom, REPUBLIC suggests, it lies only in mutual recognition. But the brutality of racist violence seeks specifically to destroy the possibility of that recognition.

Overpour – Jane Wong

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Wong’s speakers are possessed of a transforming power, but the physical realities around them push back, or bind them in ways they can’t escape.