Joe McCarthy studied philosophy and comparative literature in New York and Paris. He currently lives in Brooklyn, where he is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. His fiction has appeared in Soon Quarterly and The Extraterrestrial Anthology. He is steadfastly against the actions of and ideologies espoused by the late Wisconsin senator of the same name.
“Organizers should be writing poetry. It’s such an emotional guidance for action. It’s grounding, it’s clarifying, it’s centering. And it gives us so much life when a lot of organizing itself is so exhausting.”