Word Count: 424
Written with the knowledge incarceration brings, poetry as dissent, naming the mirroring of violence between Syria and the US.
Poetry revolting against the imposition of pervasive judgement under semiocapitalism, and gesturing to its ripe, hidden ruptures.
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With PLEXUS ELASTIC
a video by ANDREA GARCIA VASQUEZ
Poetry on the fine line between birth and death, joy and grief.
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With REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT 1)
a video by RIEKO WHITFIELD
Poetry on the delicacy of intimate violence, as seen by a son.
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With an excerpt from AFTER MY DEATH / A MUTABLE DECISION
a performance by INDIRA ALLEGRA
Word Count: 328
Su reads her poem originally featured in Issue 006: SEIZE.
Prose-poetry on the reverberations of the Biafra War.
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With EARTHBURNER
a video by MANNY OROZCO
A lyrical takedown of anti-Asian racism and misogyny.
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With an excerpt from MYCEAQUA VITAE
a film by JOSÈFA NTJAM
A lyric of desire, reverence, light, and dark.
Poetry that blooms from grief to honor a grandmother’s life.
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With THE OTHER SIDE
artwork by LUCY XIAOCHUAN LIU
Word Count: 299
Terron reads his poem which was originally featured in Issue 005: DAZE.
Poetry on the sinuous nature of reality, and the universe.
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With a video by RICK SILVA
Scathing poetry of activism.
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With SCISSION
an artwork by DEBORA CHEYENNE CRUCHON
Poetry that defies the gaze of white dominance.
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With JOSEPHINE AND THE LEOPARD
a video by JADE MONTSERRAT & WEBB-ELLIS
A rap/poem from the flux of the deadly Covid pandemic & the uprising for Black Lives.
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With BURIED BENEATH THE DUSK & REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
artworks by DAVID ALABO
Word Count: 668
A poem immersed in the moment of its creation.
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With SKHMT, AP1S & AMVN
artworks by CRICE
Word Count: 1,473
A poem on the weaker points of apocalyptic movies.
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With BEFORE ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS
an artwork by MOIRA VILLIARD
Three poems on the embrace of death by Stillpoint Magazine’s Elder in Residence.
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With EXIT & ANTI-RETRO
artworks by ANDREA CARLSON
Poetry inspired by the repressed feminine origins in the history of psychoanalysis.
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With GREY CLOUD and YELLOW DROOP
artworks by SARAH SLAPPEY