Poetry by Valentine Okolo
I Will Be Silent
Perigee
We Outlast Empire: Cynthia Atkins
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 Michael Martín
The Day the Dictator Died
We Outlast Empire: Mike Crossley
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.
Two Poems by Kyle Liang
[ELIMINATION TREATY] This poem includes text from the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed and passed on May 6, 1882. The Act was the first major law to restrict immigration to the United States and was made permanent in 1902.
We Outlast Empire: David Lohrey
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 Ilhan Dahir
a brief history of the necessary monster
We Outlast Empire: Anais Duplan
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 Claudia Cardona
What It’s Like (Being a Brown Girl)
We Outlast Empire: Tiana Nobile
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.