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How can poetry become a radical call to action in a world facing down the Anthropocene and climate change? This panel explores how language can create transformative and radical acts of subversion, reveal the physicality and form of our commodification of nature, and wander into a speculative future that embraces collective witness. With Jake Syersak’s eco-Surrealism and translation of revolutionary poets, Laura Paul’s dissection of illusory aspects of transforming raw materials into creative works, Paul Cunningham’s sociocidal and hallucinatory explorations of internet culture, gallery culture, and the meat-packing industry, and Josh Fomon’s incantatory wanderings through a future world ravished by climate change and destruction, these poets will discuss what it means to envision radical change in our world.