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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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...

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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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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Ton Dubbeldam, Poppy Field Sunset, 2018

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Issam Zineh @izineh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

With thanks to the @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social editors for selecting “When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth” as the 2024 Majda Gama Editors’ Prize.

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When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth (Winner of the 2024 Majda Gama Editors’ Prize) | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/12/2024

"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.

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Kate Sweeney @kate-sweeney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Incredible poem from @izineh.bsky.social up at @yalereview.bsky.social today. here is the whole thing: yalereview.org/article/issa...

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Really delighted to share that my chapbook, OPENING, is forthcoming from @glasspoetry.bsky.social in 2025!! 🎉

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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 “Is it possible that we’re still alive until now…may God have mercy on the martyrs”

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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Rest in Power Nikki Giovanni. Here is her iconic conversation with James Baldwin in full. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OP...

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James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video

YouTube video by LoVetta Jenkins (Chatty Passenger)

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George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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 ❤️🙏🍉

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

(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...

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
Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé: 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.

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George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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...

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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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Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 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...

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[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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Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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 🌿💞

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George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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...

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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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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 22/11/2024

Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!

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Kate Sweeney @kate-sweeney.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thank you Pleiades and @jennymolberg.bsky.social and @caitlincowan.bsky.social ❤️❤️ this issue is a joy to be part of.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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...

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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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Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Congratulations, @izineh.bsky.social Issam Zineh! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

Why Write on Gaza? A Privilege. A Need. A Must. A talk by Farah Barqawi, Palestinian writer, educator, and artist. Featuring work by Zainabl Al-Ghonaimy, lawyer, researcher, and women's rights activist. Center image is an illustrated circle, the top half delicate olive branches, the bottom half a watermelon with seeds forming a keffiyah-like pattern, overlaid with a photo of Farah, a curly-haired woman in front of a mic, mid-speech and hands raised expressively. November 22, 6 pm EST Dr. Refaat Alareer Lounge 4406 + zoom. To register: https://tinyurl.com/WhywriteonGaza – at the bottom of the olive and coral poster are various group logos, including Palestinian Feminist Collective (the others are too small for the person posting this to read)

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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...