Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. CAPABLE MONSTERS moves through entries of the pokémon encyclopedia--the Pokédex--as a way to navigate concerns of identity: otherness, what it means to be considered a monster, how we fit into a larger societal ecosystem. To make space for the validity of oft-dismissed subject material, Marlin M. Jenkins asserts the symbolic, thematic, and narrative richness of worlds like the world of Pokémon: his poems use pokémon as a way to explore cataloguing, childhood, race, queerness, violence, and the messiness of being a human in a world of humans.

The latest issue of Your Impossible Voice features new work from Marlin M. Jenkins, Nina Schuyler, Alberto Chimal (translated by George Bert Henson), Jesse Hassenger, Chelsea Harris, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Thorsten Nagelschmidt (translated by Timothy DeMarco), Matthew Roberson, Cathy Rose, Ruth Madievsky, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Kirsten Hemmy, Florbela Espanca (translated by Carlo Matos), Timothy Yu, Laurie Blauner, and Philip Kobylarz. Cover art by Michaelangelo. Your Impossible Voice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary journal. We publish brash and velvety new work from around the globe, as well as literary reviews, essays, and interviews.