In this paper I will aim to show how Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing project From Unincorporated Territory—a project that fits Marjorie Perloff’s characterization, in Unoriginal Genius, of a public-oriented experimental poetics as “poetry by other means”—contests and resituates Guam’s condition as the oldest Western colony in the Pacific in the context of twenty-first-century postcoloniality. If the twentieth century was an era of decolonization, what Michael Lujan Bevacqua refers to as Guam’s “banal coloniality” today (its militarization as natural and near …

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