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Toyon Multilingual Literary Magazine is the student-run platform for literary, spoken, and visual art at Cal Poly Humboldt, established in 1954. Toyon recognizes the transformative potential of art in the interconnected struggles for social and environmental justice while also acknowledging the role that writers, artists, and cultural institutions continue to play in maintaining the status quo. We understand that art has the power to either oppress or liberate. Toyon chooses liberation.

Announcing the Release of

TOYON ISSUE 72: Sumūd

Join us at the release party on April 22nd, 2026!
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Toyon 72 Release Party Flyer
Toyon is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of Toyon 72: Sumūd, out April 22nd, 2026. In Toyon 72, poets, writers, artists, and dissidents share their stories of steadfastness, persistence, and everyday resistance against the many arms of the global empire and envision the possibilities for a liberated future. Featuring poetry, prose, and other forms of political art, this year's issue brings together a diverse range of writers from around the world to collaborate on original translations in Arabic, Spanish, and the Indigenous language Purépecha. Toyon 72 is the companion magazine to Toyon 71: Dispatches from the Global Intifada which carries on its themes of collective protest art and writing for a permanent ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine. 

Toyon will be celebrating the release of Toyon 72 at a book release event on April 22nd, 2026 from 1-3 P.M. in the Great Hall (1 Rossow St. Arcata, CA 95521). The event is free and open to the public. Join us for live readings from the authors and an awards ceremony!
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Toyon 72 Book Cover Sneak Peak



​صمود is the verbal noun of “samada” (صمد) meaning “steadfastness,” “perseverance,” or “persistence in the face of adversity.” Sumūd refers to a constellation of Palestinian social practices, both individual and collective, that emphasize Indigenous, life-affirming, and everyday acts of resistance and survival in a settler-constructed world that seeks their demise. In Toyon 72, poets, writers, artists, and dissidents from all around the world share their stories of steadfastness and everyday resistance against the many arms of global empire and envision the possibilities for a liberated future through political art-making.

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