Inside “On Collapse”
“I see the work in this anthology as unforeseen dispatches from inside the collapsing history of imperial and colonial forces.”
On Collapse • Curated by Emilio Carrero
Community Anthologies: 2025
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On Collapse • Curated by Emilio Carrero
“The transgenerational desire to unmake colonial and imperial dreams that have, for so many, become a nightmare.”
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ReadWomen in the Sun
“Every wall caved in / during the war; / brick and tradition / bored through our homes.” -
ReadKarst Church
“I believe in the holiness of the common & of worms. Also roly-polies.” -
ReadMAGIC DISCLAIMER & other poems
“These poems depend on audience participation. They cannot happen without you.” -
ReadAmerican Menu
“Inspired by the feeling of learning the name of a fish you will eat at dinner, while sitting in front of its tank.” -
ReadCreation Myth
“The resulting form was a beautiful, expansive galaxy I’ve been calling a chaos.” -
ReadThe Good I Cannot Contain & other poems
“instead the man of my Man shall leave his and his and his flesh.” -
ReadSeven Vignettes for the Apocalypse
“Perhaps, alongside these vibrations of being, we can rest, mourn, be anxious and tired, cringe, dance, rot, fuck, crumble, ferment, fight.” -
ReadSnakes and Ladders
“Silence stays until next November when he coils and uncoils his fingers around the chain of survival, flirting with his own demise.” -
Read“On Collapse” Featured Artist
“The drawings consider the power and paradoxical hope of the wiped out, the smudged, the erased and rebuilt.”
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Read more incredible work from our community of writers, artists, and activists.
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Community Anthologies: 2025ReadOn Repetition • Curated by Jody Chan and Noa Sun
“How can language prefigure new rhythms and expressions of freedom, new openings for action—and widen existing ones?” -
Community Anthologies: 2023ReadOn Work • Curated by Say Madges
“The media has fomented a moral panic — ‘no one wants to work anymore’ — when, more accurately, no one wants to work under these conditions anymore.”