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Big Rock Candy Mountain

Harry McClintock February 24, 2023

Where they hung the jerk / That invented work

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In Issue #8, Poetry

The Republic of Dreams

Alexander Billet February 24, 2023

His work is better suited / for panic attacks / than anything smacking of pride.

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Long Hours Away from Home

Mike Linaweaver February 24, 2023

these parasitic hours sitting through the night

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Free Black History

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

Free as black ants in a bladed line.

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (Part Four)

Tish and Adam Turl February 24, 2023

As Ello turned off the world she searched its jails and prison cells for Dr. Ferthus.

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In Issue #8, Fiction

The Land of Cokaygne

Unknown (14th Century) February 24, 2023

In Cokaygne food and drink are had without worry, trouble or toil. 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Golden Hour

Adam Marks February 24, 2023

“They know what you’re up to,” said the Voice. “You’re going to blow the whole thing. We should never have trusted you.” 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Invitation to Lubberland

Unknown (17th Century) February 24, 2023

‘Hot roasted pigs will meet ye,

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In Issue #8, Poetry

The Red Temple

Mike Linaweaver February 24, 2023

“Lay down your labors, good worker. 
Put off your boots and gloves. 
Enter, and be among your comrades whole.”

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In Issue #8, Poetry

My Body's Long Term Plan

R. Faze February 24, 2023

We are in the future. Not too distant future. We’re not flying in a spaceship or anything. We’re in a big rig semi, with a huge cabin, like a tiny house. On a road that looks like I-40, but the road sign we just passed said I-3958.

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Das Märchen von Schlauraffen

The Brothers Grimm February 24, 2023

Then a cock crowed, Cock-a-doodle-doo! The story is all told--Cock-a-doodle-doo!

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In Issue #8, Fiction

From: PxmB Central Mainframe 

Adam Marks February 24, 2023

My Species and I saw you from across the void and we really dig your vibe. We wanted to reach out to you so we sent you this email, all of you. We hope you don’t mind. 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Abandoned Mining Town

John Grey February 24, 2023

I heard scurrilous things: 
babies with two heads
locked in the attic,

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Rail Against

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

exploit, object. St. Louis as beeswax, resin

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Landlord Audacity

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

You, from inside your  
publishing house of  
unearned income, 

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In Issue #8, Poetry
editorial
Locust 14 is Coming: Is Capitalist Realism Over?
Locust Arts + Letters Collective
October 26, 2026
Locust 14 is Coming: Is Capitalist Realism Over?
Locust Arts + Letters Collective
October 26, 2026

We are finalizing Locust Review 14, “Is Capitalist Realism Over?” Locust Review has always been influenced by Mark Fisher’s discussion of capitalist realism. But what if capitalist realism — tied to the political center — is over? As AI slop is weaponized into fascist aesthetics, as the ghosts of Stalin and Kautsky are resurrected on the left, as absurdities mount, has the mainstream prohibition on radical alternatives morphed into something else? Locust Review 14 will feature:

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Locust Arts + Letters Collective
October 26, 2026

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Soup for Your Family
Tish Turl + Adam Turl
March 15, 2026
Soup for Your Family
Tish Turl + Adam Turl
March 15, 2026

Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Soup for Your Family - tree, pantyhose, Campbell’s soup cans (2026)

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Tish Turl + Adam Turl
March 15, 2026
Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1
Tish Turl + Adam Turl
January 26, 2026
Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1
Tish Turl + Adam Turl
January 26, 2026

Tish Turl and Adam Turl: Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1 - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, marker, glitter, graphite, ink, coffee, stickers, cotton and ash on salvaged "thrift store painting," approx. 38 x 27 inches (2026)

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Tish Turl + Adam Turl
January 26, 2026

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Healing the Broken Social Ensemble
Adam Turl
September 30, 2026
Healing the Broken Social Ensemble
Adam Turl
September 30, 2026

I fell in love with Anupam’s work because it isn’t “what it is,” it's something more.  Anupam’s work is like slip healing fragments of broken clay.

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Adam Turl
September 30, 2026
 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Ed Sheeran
Alexander Billet
September 25, 2026
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Ed Sheeran
Alexander Billet
September 25, 2026

Because Ed Sheeran doesn’t exist. Not really. He may have at one point, but the avatar that cried onstage in Philadelphia and wants you to cry for him isn’t, in the end, a human with their own wants and needs, separate from the system he’s spent so much effort ingratiating himself to. Make enough decisions that fail to mark where you stand in relation to history, and you eventually vanish completely. Incapable of love, of fairness, of courage or even a modicum of individuality. Just another piece of flotsam aimlessly drifting through the tepid flow of capital. 

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Alexander Billet
September 25, 2026

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Cruelty
Alexander Billet
July 30, 2026
Cruelty
Alexander Billet
July 30, 2026

Don’t worry. / Don’t hesitate. / You are good. / You are righteous. / And righteous goodness / can never be cruel.

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Alexander Billet
July 30, 2026
Letter to the Young Queers from Someone who Accidentally Got Old
Tish Turl
July 28, 2026
Letter to the Young Queers from Someone who Accidentally Got Old
Tish Turl
July 28, 2026

One day I woke up / and somebody called me “elder,” / and I almost checked my pulse. / Then I remembered— / queer years run on dog-time.

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Tish Turl
July 28, 2026

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Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
November 28, 2023
Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
November 28, 2023

The Theatrical Party embraces the organization of pessimism in contrast to the false optimism of the left. To be a revolutionary pessimist is to separate the political actor from their role. It is this separation which, in the epic theater of Brecht, invited a critical outlook on the performance from its participants and spectators — the first step in the transformation of spectators into collaborators, a task integral to both theater and the forging of a revolutionary party.

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Irrealist Combat League
November 28, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
October 31, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
October 31, 2023

We want a record of the real in the work — as in the cotton and ash — as well as reclamations of our history and imaginaries constructed against the limits of working-class imaginations by capitalist realism. So the individual pieces are sort of vignettes of class pathos and poetry, often in an irreal idiom, and all together representing, as much as we can, the limitless expansive nature of these stories in aggregate. 

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Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
October 31, 2023

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My Body Maps Political Forces
R. Faze
July 5, 2026
My Body Maps Political Forces
R. Faze
July 5, 2026

It was four years since the attempted self-immolation by my body. Three years since my body was named The Idiot. Two years since The Idiot had any contact with sister, mother or father. A year and a half since The Idiot’s prayers had been answered. In the wrong way. 

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R. Faze
July 5, 2026
The Boredom Artist
Adam Marks
July 4, 2026
The Boredom Artist
Adam Marks
July 4, 2026

THE BOREDOM Artist was set to retire. He would give one more performance. London’s Festival Hall was sold out as a result. Last chance to see. One-thousand seven-hundred and ten people, people who liked and appreciated what he did, would go with Dave to a place he had never gone before, though midnight, past the hour-mark. A clock behind them counted down.

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Adam Marks
July 4, 2026

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Locust Radio Ep. 31 - Lucky 13
December 1, 2025
Locust Radio Ep. 31 - Lucky 13
December 1, 2025

In Locust Radio 31,  Tish and Adam read poems from the forthcoming issue, discuss Trumpism and art in Venice, and try to unpack the editorial for Locust Review  13. Tish and Adam also listen to the song “Dortn” by Sister Wife Sex Strike. 

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December 1, 2025
Locust Radio Ep. 30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth
May 3, 2025
Locust Radio Ep. 30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth
May 3, 2025

In this book, Adam traces the haunted landscapes left behind by capital—abandoned factories, broken promises, digital ghosts—and asks what it means to make art in a world where both Heaven and Earth seem to have shut their doors. It’s part art theory, part manifesto, part séance. And in true Locust Radio fashion, it’s not just a critique—it’s a search for openings.

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May 3, 2025

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