Calling poetry lovers and lovers of other worlds!! Next Sunday, Feb 9th, we welcome Tracy Fuad, who will be teaching a workshop called "Poetics of Incantation." www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/poe...
Poetics of Incantation — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $60). Step 2: Register for “Poetics of Incantation” here . Incantations have the power to cast spells and conjure other worlds. I...
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Thank you @sixthfinch.bsky.social! an honor to be on this list!
Sixth Finch@sixthfinch.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're very excited to share the results of this year's chapbook contest. Please join us in congratulating the winners and finalists. Huge thanks to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for updates about pre-orders and release dates for the three newest additions to the Sixth Finch catalog.
With thanks to the @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social editors for selecting “When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth” as the 2024 Majda Gama Editors’ Prize.
When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth (Winner of the 2024 Majda Gama Editors’ Prize) | Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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"I wish the war would end and we could return to our homes in peace." A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
Incredible poem from @izineh.bsky.social up at @yalereview.bsky.social today. here is the whole thing: yalereview.org/article/issa...
The great Nikki Giovanni alive here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...
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There is a bat In Chile named Micronyteris giovanniae Dr. Robert Baker named it After me. He discovered it While studying bats And thought the big ears Were just like me Maybe if the bat wrote She wou...
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Rest in Power Nikki Giovanni. Here is her iconic conversation with James Baldwin in full. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OP...
James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video
YouTube video by LoVetta Jenkins (Chatty Passenger)
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Grateful to have this new poem in the new issue of @thebeliever.net with thanks to habibi Fady Joudah whose book has helped get me through this past year, & to @sallywenmao.bsky.social for the support ❤️🙏🍉
(once more with feeling, and without so many typos lol) We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists in the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series! We'll be choosing three chapbooks for publication. Thank you to the nearly 300 poets who sent in a manuscript. www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks/se...
Some news, with a heavy heart and gratitude for the people who fight to keep Palestinians alive, despite. My next poetry collection, WHEN THE ARAB APOCALYPSE COMES TO AMERICA will be published by @haymarketbooks.org in 2026.
And @lenakt.bsky.social will speak about Memory for Forgetfulness, Mahmoud Darwish's extraordinary lyric that reflects on living through Israel's 1982 bombing of Beirut, a book that touches every part of being. Join @workshops4gaza.bsky.social on Dec. 7. 🖤 www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
Past Continuous — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Othman here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Past Continuous” here . In this workshop led by award-winning poet Lena Tuffaha, participants will rea...
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❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 OFFER: Cover the cost of a blanket, send us a receipt, and we'll send you a copy of If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose, by Refaat Alareer! Our copies are here and ready to ship out: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] [12/03/24] Alareer, Refaat: If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose (HC)
OR Books, hardcover Publication Date: December 3, 2024 Publisher Marketing: "If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet...
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Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re doing a blanket drive! Instead of engaging in mindless consumerism today, donate to cover the cost of one blanket in the north, approx. $38USD at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-north or $90USD in the south at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-south
Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. More than a year into...
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Update: Thanks to your orders and additional donations, we've met our November goal of $1K in donation funds for HEAL Palestine & and we're now up to $1,700! Can we double our goal by the end of the month? More? Let's keep it going in honor of the wonderful @lenakt.bsky.social 🌿💞
Open Books: A Poem Emporium@openpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 2y agoStill over the moon with the @nationalbook.bsky.social news! To celebrate, we'd love to raise as much as possible for @lenakt.bsky.social's HEAL Palestine fundraiser. All proceeds from any of Lena's collections will be sent there. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/tuf... ✨📚🌿
MIZNA 25.1: CATASTROPHE HAS ARRIVED! This issue is gorgeous and breathtaking beyond words. I hope you'll hold these words of our community, who have gathered here despite an impossible time for so many of us 🍉🇵🇸 mizna.org/product/mizn...
Coming up on 14 Dec, an online writing workshop with @melissafebos.bsky.social and Donika Kelly called Directed by Desire, inspired by the poems of June Jordan. All proceeds to the Sameer Project, a life-sustaining mutual aid collective in GZ: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/dir...
Directed by Desire — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “Directed by Desire” here . Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60USD). In this multi-genre online workshop, Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly will lead particip...
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!
Thank you Pleiades and @jennymolberg.bsky.social and @caitlincowan.bsky.social ❤️❤️ this issue is a joy to be part of.
Pleiades: Literature in Context@pleiadesmag.bsky.social · 2y agoToday’s featured poem from the new fall issue of Pleiades is Kate Sweeney’s “Substratum”. Read it here: pleiadesmag.com/online-exclu... @kate-sweeney.bsky.social
NYC friends, can you please sign up for and share this benefit reading we’re hosting at Yu and Me Books on 4 Dec.? Feat. Jenny Xie, Megan Fernandes and Kyle Lucia Wu 💖 We’re hoping to get 10 sign-ups today. Links to the authors’ work below! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-b...
A Benefit Reading for Gaza — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “A Benefit Reading for Gaza” here . Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $25 USD). Join Workshops for Gaza for our first IN-PERSON reading at Yu and Me Books in ...
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Friday in NYC + online: Palestinian writer Farah Barqawi, "Why Write on Gaza? A Privilege. A Need. A Must." 6 pm at CUNY Grad Center (365 5th Ave), Dr. Refaat Alareer Lounge (4406) REGISTER > tinyurl.com/WhywriteonGaza note: event open to public – photo ID needed to enter building
Poetry in a Time of Genocide, a two-episode special of the IMEU's This Is Palestine podcast. Host Diana Buttu speaks with National Book Award finalists Fady Joudah and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social) on genocide and defying cultural erasure pod.link/1509337661/e...
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'This Is Palestine' is a podcast that highlights people, issues, and events around Palestine. We bring you stories from the ground in Palestine, and we speak with experts and activists to bring you un...
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