Zeyn Joukhadar interviews Andrea Abi-Karam in Them. “In the punk poet-performer’s latest collection, they explore the role of poetry in the fight against white supremacy and late-stage capitalism.”
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel reflect on political radicalism, inventive aesthetics, and the publication of their anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
Andrea Abi-Karam answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be in their second book, Villainy. In order to live through the grief of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban, Villainy foments political action in public spaces, and indexes the various emotional states, such as rage, revelry, fear, grief, and desire to which queers must tend during protest.
Dive into Your Impossible Voice #22 and discover new work by Marream Krollos, Cidinha da Silva (translated by Ana Luiza de Oliveira e Silva and Daniel Persia), Renée Ashley, Xurxo Borrazás (translated by Jacob Rogers), Erin Slaughter, Ascher/Straus, Jonathan Jones, Berna Durmaz (translated by Dayla Rogers), Alan Chazaro , Andrea Abi-Karam, Cástulo Aceves (translated by Michael Langdon), Leanne Grabel, Melanie Figg, Margherita Arco, Megin Jimenez, Eddie P. Gomez, and Kyle Lung. Cover art by Tara Barr.