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Power and Privilege
Ken Babstock
‘We do it all day every day until we can’t see. / We do it with a belt between our teeth.’
Poem Written from Inside a Leather Pig Mask
Sam Sax
‘child who dreams of growing into / a swan only to wake in terror at a mouth / filled with feathers.’
Two Poems
Emmalea Russo
‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
In Conversation
Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
Children in Tactical Gear
Peter Mishler
‘we watched the last / very colorful weapons / coming ashore’
