By: Lola Ridge

“They think they have tamed you, workers — / Beaten you to a tool”

By: Michael Williams

“Cold and keen and utterly logical and devoid of all love and warmth.”

By: Joshua Glenn

10 Radium Age art works about eco-catastrophes

By: Leslie Pinckney Hill

“Faint not, O brothers, if the forward way / Must lie through fire and famine, death and blood.”

By: Michael Williams

“We may be threatened with revolution by an inside power…”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“Compound eyes / Declare war towards darkness…”

By: Michael Williams

“Yesterday sixty-three electrical engineers and dynamo tenders were killed —”

By: Evelyn Scott

“Tentacles thrust imperceptibly into the future…”

By: Mykola Bazhan

“Zurma swarm, fully bleak / will hit hard on the armor of paunches…”

By: Michael Williams

“The problem that baffled Richard Meehan was not a problem, it was an impossibility.”

By: Frigyes Karinthy

“I saw heat, thermal energy flowing around me…”

By: Harriet Monroe

“I sailed sun-high / While the world went by.”

By: Joshua Glenn

10 Radium Age art works about a dying / dead Earth

By: Frigyes Karinthy

“The dosire was a sick sickness which destroyed itself…”

By: Zora Neale Hurston

“None may lag / When star dust hides the earth.”