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...
thank you!! ππ
Thank you @sixthfinch.bsky.social! an honor to be on this list!
Ton Dubbeldam, Poppy Field Sunset, 2018
With thanks to the @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social editors for selecting βWhen We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Mythβ as the 2024 Majda Gama Editorsβ Prize.
"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...
Really delighted to share that my chapbook, OPENING, is forthcoming from @glasspoetry.bsky.social in 2025!! π
Eman Shanti
Say her name: Eman Shanti, Palestinian journalist, killed today in Gaza with husband Helmi & children Alma, Omar, & Bilal. She is among nearly 200 journalists killed by US-backed-Israel. Her final written words were βIs it possible that weβre still alive until nowβ¦may God have mercy on the martyrsβ
The great Nikki Giovanni alive here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...
Rest in Power Nikki Giovanni. Here is her iconic conversation with James Baldwin in full.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OP...
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 β€οΈππ
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The 2025 Glass Chapbook Series We are proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series. Almost 300 manuscripts were submitted, from which the following fifteen finalists were selected. Daria-Ann Martineau: To Behead These Gods Nur Turkmani: October Philip Kenner: BOYSTUFF Em Townsend: Astronaut of Loss Diane G. Martin: Traced on Snow Melanie Hyo-In Han: Passing Note in Secret Heidi Seaborn: Brush Fire Han VanderHart: Hawks & Moons Romana Iorga: Witness Protection Jude Marr: Silence Will Not Save Us E.B. Schnepp: Blueberries Stain Like Blood Stephanie L. Harper and Robert Okaji: Inevitable River Ashley Cline: loading a new continent Stefanie Kirby: Opening IΜfαΊΉΜolΓΊwa AΜyaΜndeΝleΝ: Our Body is an Offering From these fifteen finalist, three manuscripts will be selected for publication. Thank you to everyone who submitted a manuscript. It was an honor to read them all.
(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. π€
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯ 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...
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 πΏπ
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 ππ΅πΈ
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Michael and Elizabeth Rea, 1991 Β© Cy Twombly
Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137494
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...
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!
Thank you Pleiades and @jennymolberg.bsky.social and @caitlincowan.bsky.social β€οΈβ€οΈ this issue is a joy to be part of.
NYC friends, can you please sign up for and share this benefit reading weβre hosting at Yu and Me Books on 4 Dec.? Feat. Jenny Xie, Megan Fernandes and Kyle Lucia Wu π Weβre hoping to get 10 sign-ups today. Links to the authorsβ work below! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-b...
Congratulations, @izineh.bsky.social Issam Zineh! π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
