Issue 34: Poets Are Patriots: Writers Respond to Censorship: Fall 2025

Artists clockwise from top left: Colette Love Hilliard, Karen Bell, Ashwini Bhasi, Joshua Mark Phillippe, and Ava Mack.

Welcome to Fall 2025: Poets Are Patriots

Subhaga Crystal Bacon Habitat

I can’t tell what you are.

Bethany F. Brengan It’s a Miracle

Prince Bush

Black

Instead of Facts, I Have This Body

Jessica Cohn Systematically

Sam Nordquist

Featured Artist: Karen Bell

Hannah Comerford

Microsoft Teams Call

Laura Cronk Moral Reasoning

Lisa Caroline Friedman

trump’s purge, an erasure poem

Featured Artist: Ashwini Bhasi

Robbie Gamble

Thirteen Ways of Erasing a _________ bird

Âmî Jey

What They Meant to Ban Was Me

Nima Kian Climate Refugees

Featured Artist: Colette Love Hilliard

Thomas Kneeland

We Have The Power To Begin The World All Over Again

Lylanne Musselman

Unconstitutional Climate

Benjamin Niespodziany

Distant Patriotic Crop Top

Silent America

Political Intern

Simply Horrific

He has

Featured Artist: Ava Mack

Robin Reagler

Nothing Appalling Here

Hannah Sobhie

I, Too, Sing [REDACTED]

Hiromi Yoshida Lexicons

Union Square

Featured Artist: Joshua Mark Phillippe

A Review of Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder by Ashley Mack-Jackson