The Boukra Collective
Poetry & Essays
The Boukra Collective is a group of writers, scholars, and artists in the Monterey area with varying levels of affiliation with Old Capitol Books.
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“relearning how to breathe,” a poem by Chris Siders
Chris Siders’s new work explores two contemporary concerns: white supremacist violence and the horrors of covid. But rather than imagining that these function separately, Siders uses the poem as a net to connect them to the way capitalism, militarism, and the U.S. nation-state itself can violently structure our experiences and very lives.
“Observing Shapes of Judgement in the Sky,” a new poem by Brian Sheffield
Sheffield experiments with blatantly disrespecting institutional norms and how we interact with them. This new work challenges hierarchies both in heaven and on earth.
“Ends and Means: An Anarchist Critique of Seizing State Power” is available for pre-order
Release date: January 2022$5, including shipping Zoe Baker’s succinct analysis outlines how methods of revolution which rely on seizing state power reproduce the systems and ways of living that we are hoping to destroy.
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