A poem from Fugue & Strike got quoted in Alex Skopic’s Current Affairs article, “How To Write A Good Political Poem.” An important question & one, imo, that has to account for the many deeply entrenched norms and networks of reception that depoliticize political poetry, that disconnect it from action or irl solidarities that would lead to action. I also appreciate that Skopic finds my poetics excessive at times. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Skopic also constellates the work of Brendan Joyce, Noor Hindi, Refaat Alareer, Mosab Abu Toha, Khaled Juma, Darius Simpson, and Kyle Carrero Lopez. Before you read anything of mine, read these poets, please. And let them move you into the arms of action. B/c, f*ck, it’s urgent. As is defending militant action.

The poem Skopic quotes, which has former Erie county chief torturer/sheriff Tim Howard accusing himself of murder is part of a sequence that grew and grew into another book that will appear as People Finder, Buffalo from cloakWTF this spring/summer.