We’re excited to announce the launch of The Call Center Collective’s fourth issue!Please excuse us, we were delayed! All of The Center’s resident mushrooms reside in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. The terror ICE visited upon our beloved neighborhoods these past few months had us out and about in our various above- and underground guises. It was a joy, an honor, a real balm to return to the work of poetry in this issue. There is a class of fungi and bacteria—saprophytes—that get their energy from digesting external dead matter. The poets in this issue are saprophytes. They alchemize the language deadened in the eco- and genocidal crush of fascism’s ascent, and recast it into intimate, beautiful, living matter. Take some moments out of your day to spend time with the work of these poets. It’s important work. It really really is. Poems by: Christina Vega-Westhoff, Sun Yung Shin, Kathleen Veltkamp, Joseph Randolph, Olivia Cronk, Bryan Price, Dennis James Sweeney, and Jessica Elsaesser. | 
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ReplyDeletethe weird sketch of a wolf with human hands,
holding them out like applause and interrogation, his mouth
waiting awkwardly for receipt.
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