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Michael Hessel-Mial

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Sep 14, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · By: Michael Hessel-Mial

    To Locked Feathers (opens the original)

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    “To Locked Feathers” from Treasury of Dispatches Ca. 39,000,000 hours past ADDRESS: /records/non-operations/narrative_set/4_systems/treasury_of_dispatches/+4~1/GUIDE PARSING CREATOR ABSTRACT RECORD NOT FOUND GENERATING ABSTRACT: This dispatch to the Four Systems Era’s traditional patron of scientific inquiry offers insight into the tu- multuous early period of terraforming new planets. Locked Feathers, unerring and dispassionate judge of fact, magnifier of vision and clunking-footed, subcrèche b

  2. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · By: Michael Hessel-Mial

    Earthly Playing Field by Radhika Singh (opens the original)

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    Radhika Singh’s Earthly Playing Field is a novel that is firmly rooted in our erupting, unfolding present moment. Set in 2024, the story centers on Roma, a woman living in Queens, as she grapples with issues such as the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the tentacular reach of surveillance technology. Across the world, in Amarpur, India, Roma’s brothers are involved in farmers’ resistance movements against both the Hindutva state and American multinational corporations. What bonds these worlds is a b

  3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · By: Michael Hessel-Mial

    Michael Hessel-Mial (opens the original)

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    Michael is a poet and scholar based in Minneapolis, where he teaches college composition. A comparative literature PhD, Michael draws on many world literature traditions to create speculative poetry of far-future struggles similar to our own fights against capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and ecocide. He is also, with Miguel Mitchell, co-editor of Specpoverse, a journal of speculative poetry. Michael is Jewish, a wife guy, and a father.

  4. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · By: Michael Hessel-Mial

    Hannan Khan (opens the original)

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    Hannan Khan—a nefelibata, poet, fiction writer, editor, and scholar of literature & linguistics from Pakistan. He is the winner of the Native Voices Award 2025 for his poetry collection Isn’t Cooked Is Cursed, and a finalist for the Rhysling Award 2026. He is longlisted for the erbacce-prize for Poetry 2026. He sips coffee and reads Manto. His work has appeared in IHRAM Literary Magazine, Fahmidan Journal, Evergreen Review, Eye To The Telescope, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Abyss & Apex, Neon & Smok

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