Nonfiction by Nicholas Powers
The Island, Dark
Perigee
We Outlast Empire
Kenji Liu on Frankenpoetry, Monsters, and Toxic Masculinity
Place[meant]: Joseph O. Legaspi
Place[meant] is a recurring series that explores identity beyond the geopolitical and physical parameters that have come to define our sense of place. From a train in Queens to the cuff of a bodily spell, the poems in this series navigate place as both material terrain and residual traces of one’s memory. Place[meant] delves into how migration, diaspora, borders, technologies of power and control, biopolitics, and historical violence shape our identities, the powers of which are anything but benign.
Nonfiction by Jane Marchant
The Beginnings
Place[meant]: Belal Mobarak
Place[meant] is a recurring series that explores identity beyond the geopolitical and physical parameters that have come to define our sense of place. From a train in Queens to the cuff of a bodily spell, the poems in this series navigate place as both material terrain and residual traces of one’s memory. Place[meant] delves into how migration, diaspora, borders, technologies of power and control, biopolitics, and historical violence shape our identities, the powers of which are anything but benign.
We Outlast Empire: Eda Tse
We Outlast Empire is a recurring series which aims to highlight poetry that explores the many angles of our current global and political situation. With words, we hope, we may transmute a part of ourselves—a part however small or large—that can exist without drawn borders, without violence, without injustice.
We Outlast Empire: Jennifer Martelli
We Outlast Empire is a recurring series which aims to highlight poetry that explores the many angles of our current global and political situation. With words, we hope, we may transmute a part of ourselves—a part however small or large—that can exist without drawn borders, without violence, without injustice.
Poetry by Fatima Shakur
black bitch in museum singing stones // the dusable
On Empire: Muriel Leung in conversation with MT Vallarta
We Outlast Empire is a recurring series which aims to highlight poetry that explores the many angles of our current global and political situation. With words, we hope, we may transmute a part of ourselves—a part however small or large—that can exist without drawn borders, without violence, without injustice. Poetry Editor Muriel Leung speaks to MT Vallarta about MT’s poem, “Empire is a black hole:”
We Outlast Empire: MT Vallarta
We Outlast Empire is a recurring series which aims to highlight poetry that explores the many angles of our current global and political situation. With words, we hope, we may transmute a part of ourselves—a part however small or large—that can exist without drawn borders, without violence, without injustice. Read MT Vallarta’s interview with poetry editor Muriel Leung here.