creative writing

$Two illustrations sit side-by-side. The left illustration shows a punctured pipeline, with oil spilling out and covering grassy land and plants. Two workers' helmets float at the edges of the oil spill. Smoke arises from three oil frackers lining the horizon. In one of the smoke clouds, it reads ‘CAPITALISM.’ And in the oil spill, it reads ‘HURTS THE WORKER. HURTS THE PLANET.’ The right illustration shows a collage of imagery representing things harming the world with things that could help the world. This includes a sunflower plant destroying a bomb, plants growing out of a police car, mushrooms growing out of a spilled bucket of toxic liquid, a person holding a sword and wearing a t-shirt that says DEMILITARIZE.$

Posted March 19, 2023 Article

Anti-lamentation

A poem by Sam Friedman

by Sam Friedman

In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.

Posted February 26, 2023 Article

From below and to the left

Two poems by former Texas death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster

by Kenneth Foster, Jr.

These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.

A number of different irds--heron, owl, hawk, and others--fly tied together by an orange string on a blue background. The last dangling bird is a surprised-looking chicken.

Posted December 28, 2022 creative writing

Commanders of nature

by Dana Cloud

In this poem, Tempest member Dana Cloud explores the nature of solidarity.

Posted November 20, 2022 Article

Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?

by Sam Friedman

A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.

Posted October 6, 2022 Article

Reflections on the 2020 uprising

by Mara Chinelli

Mara Chinelli looks back on the 2020 rebellion that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and its reverberations across the country, including in New York City.

Posted December 12, 2021 Article

In search of resistance

A review of The World Turned Upside Down

by Lee Wengraf

Lee Wengraf reviews a new novel by Leo Zeiliig.

Posted November 28, 2021 Article

In you I trust

A poem of sight

by Brian Young Jr.

A poem from Brian Young Jr. in recognition and celebration of the first Tempest Collective convention.