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Description: Umang Kalra is a queer Indian writer and artist.
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Umang Kalra’s “fig” proves that, even in apocalypse, there is still poetry. Exploring abuse, surveillance, and digital shadows that will surely outlive us, their chapbook demands that while we oppose capitalism, we also consider if real utopia even includes us. In a brimming world where the state watches over all of our actions, Kalra’s poetry asks the burning questions: “where will we put all our heart / emojis,” where will we put all our heart? - Samantha Fain, author of Coughing Up Planets (Vegetarian Al
POETRY "SURVEILLANCE STATE POEM" | ANMLY (forthcoming) // "EKPHRASIS ON SATURN, MARS, VENUS, AND JUPITER LINING UP IN RARE CELESTIAL SPECTACLE:" | beestung (forthcoming) // "CRIMINALITY" | Code Lit (forthcoming) // "2017" & "utopia poem (#?)" | Kiss Your Darlings, Olney Magazine (forthcoming) // “EPISTOLARY POEM” | Strange Horizons (forthcoming) // “i could go to bed sweetly, pothos crawling”, “Grace”, & “ARS POETICA where i know what the words mean” | Lucy Writers’ Platform // “Susan Sontag Bends a Picture
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