The Supreme Court Says YAASS, Honey, to Homophobia
It’s been a banner week for the nation’s highest court. On Thursday, three opinions issued forth from that marble sarcophagus of justice that, among other things, upheld corporate America’s god-given right to never be ...
We hold war’s hand,not so that it walks among us,but it is death,a bit tardy, we cajole it.
We hold war’s hand,convinced that this is the last timeit waves catastrophe to us,since the road is a futile wall,
and the country is searchingfor a photographof collective ...
Drowning in the time allotted for truce,we manufacture spare heartsin case we lose the hearts each of us has.We’re uncertain of life’s worthon the slipping edge,yet it seems hope can’t be shelled all at once.The minute details of war,poison gas we can’t thwartfrom ...
Goodbye to All That
For far too long, millennials, when not busy eviscerating the raisin and canned tuna industries, have been living like “bourgeois royalty” courtesy of benevolent investors who have, for years, subsidized the immiseration of millions of workers (millennial ...
Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here.
Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...