“The Second Sermon on the Warpland” from In the Mecca by Gwendolyn Brooks. New York: Harper & Row. Copyright © 1968. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
“The Jenky,” “ ‘My Life, My Life, My Life, My Life in the Sunshine,’ ” and “REPENT OR BURN” from The Book of Delights, copyright © 2019 by Ross Gay. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. All rights reserved.
“New State,” by Christine Gosnay, from The Wanderer, Beloit Poetry Journal Chad Walsh Chapbook Series. Copyright © 2019 by Christine Gosnay.
“Hurricane Poetics and Crip Psychogeographies,” by Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers, from Geopoetics in Practice, edited by Eric Magrane, Linda Russo, Sarah de Leeuw, and Craig Santos Perez. Routledge, 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers.
“Various Instructions for the Practice of Poetic Field Research,” by Eric Magrane, first published on the University of Arizona Poetry Center blog, April 13, 2012. Copyright © 2012 by Eric Magrane.
art credits
Cover art © Denise Stewart-Sanabria, Pink Gets Hot, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches; page 10 © David Gessner; pages 14–15 © Laura Converse via Unsplash; page 28 © Kinzy Janssen; pages 37–48 © Ana Teresa Fernández (page 37: Pasando (Performance documentation), 2018, 14 x 17 inches, graphite on paper, courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris; pages 38–39: Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera), 2013, 48 x 72 inches, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris; page 40: I Can’t Pass / No puedo pasar (Performance Documentation at Tijuana / San Diego Border), 2005, 60 x 72 inches, oil on canvas, photo by Michael Tropea, courtesy of the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; page 41: In Between (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2013, 60 x 48 x 1 ½ inches, oil on canvas, photo by Michael Tropea, courtesy of the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago and Gilberto Cardenas; page 42: Entre #1 (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2013, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris; page 43: Entre #2 (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2013, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris; page 44: Entre #3 (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2013, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris; page 45: Entre #4 (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2013, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris; pages 46–47: Untitled (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2006, 36 x 62 x 3 inches, oil on canvas, photo by Michael Tropea, courtesy of the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; page 48: Untitled (Performance documentation at San Diego / Tijuana border), 2007, 60 x 72 x 4 inches, oil on canvas, photo by Michael Tropea, courtesy of the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; page 54: image © Alex Baber via Unsplash, type treatment © Jeff Oloizia; pages 72–73: forest image © Filip Zrnzević, bear image © Michael Fraley, CC 2.0 Generic via Flickr; pages 89–91 © Ann B. Kim; page 93: image © Raul Cacho Oses via Unsplash, type treatment © Tory Tarpley, pages 94–95 © Petra Kuppers; page 96 © Ian Douglas; page 112 © Antonella Lombardi via Unsplash; pages 118-119 © Steve Halama via Unsplash; page 143 © National Gallery of Art, Washington.