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The Sameer Project: Mass Displacement Response Campaign
We are witnessing a historically tragic, a historically cruel, a historically criminal, moment that is enabling the ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians from the North of Gaza. It has been 77 year since the Nakba - the “catastrophe” - that led to the dismantling of Palestine, the dispossession of land, the theft of property, and the attempted fracture of the Palestinian identity by zionist forces. The images are similar, hoards of people forced to flee under threat, in duress, with no where to go. But today the reality is even more dire as airstrikes and quadcopter rain terror on a tired, starved, and depleted population. The North is being leveled, with one objective in mind - expanded occupation, total takeover. ETHNIC CLEANSING.
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All text is in curving black on a pastel green river-rock-shaped space, slightly to the right & downward on the cover. The rock is surrounded by concentric bands of alternating pink & turquoise rippling outward to the edges (& becoming more rectangular as they travel outward).
[small print following the upper rounded edge of the rock:]
Winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
[huge, centered & growing big then small then big then small to echo/fit the rock edges:]
GHOST ::
SEEDS
[medium size, in the lower left round corner of the rock:]
Sebastian Merrill
A circular silver seal in the upper right corner (with a black triangle, an open book inside, & a large pink dot over the left edge of the book & triangle corner) reads:
Stonewall Honor Book
American Library Association](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreid2d3g2dyrvuwnnmap624b55lzlik7zg6hs7vfkb45aaselzypugm)
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Cover art by Eben Nwaokpani shows a black person crouched on mossy rocks at the edge of a large body of water. Over them lean some pink tree leaves/flowers. In the distance, seemingly rising directly out of the water, is a half-ruined city skyline. A few puffy white clouds are in the turquoise & pink sky & in the foreground. Koi swim in the water close to the viewer. 6 pink butterflies flit around the head of the person & upward.
[in small black at the top edge:]
“Iloh is a writer to watch.” —Jason Reynolds
[in huge white, weaving behind & in front of some picture elements:]
SALT THE
WATER
[medium-size, in white, at the bottom, justified right:]
CANDICE ILOH
[small, italicized:]
National Book Award Finalist and Michael L Printz Honoree](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreia7b5anyl2qrcfvzspjo7ymcpeke2pzee447zfj7zotpwfydntavq)
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Cover art is Robed, by Terrance Hayes, unfinished 2020 painting based on photograph by Adrian Boot, Marvin Gaye last UK photo session at his West London Apartment 1980.
Gaye sits in a white robe on a gray couch; he’s leaning over his bare legs, holding his bare toes on the dark brown floor. His face is tilted upward so that he gazes toward the viewer.
[Large blue text across the top:]
TERRANCE HAYES
[tiny black text, justified left, next to Gaye’s head & just above the couch:]
Author of LIGHTHEAD,
Winner of the National Book Award
[just under the couch, to the right of Gaye’s left hand & foot & next to little orange, black & white Penguin icon, in tiny yellow:]
Penguin
Poets
[in large yellow, starting just under Gaye’s right foot, & justified right:]
SO TO SPEAK](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreifg6vtyolnfqfo5jmuxc5tvcebzdnnhqahgr4nm5whe5bd4doguw4)
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Cover art is a zoom in on the painting Helen of Troy by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool): Helen’s nose, eyes (gaze directed right & upward), furrowed brow, & red hair, severely parted. All text in white & centered.
[on her hair, just over the center part:]
POEMS
[just above her eyebrows, half behind her curly bangs:]
HELEN of TROY, 1993
Across the bridge of her nose:]
Maria Zoccola](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreiby2ize25ubsh7rmarhofbwy6h3gf5rdrrh5h33mwmuixmexgrbye)
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Cover art is a photo by Carolyn Ho of art by Truong Tran — closeup of a sculptural piece from his “Targets” series: curved concentric bands of wood, blue, red & white. Text is overlayed vertically.
[In silver, in a straight black margin running next to the spine:]
truong tran
Further toward the center of the cover, the whole title is on 1 line, inside the blue curve.
[in very large cream]LOOKING [smaller, brick red:]a n d [very large grey:]SEEING
[toward the right edge, near the end of the blue curve, in white:]
Omnidawn logo
The isbn & barcode is tucked into the red section at lower right edge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreiffhvm276bg6rtau2soxlyvumaagsdylqjmr4t46uvyj2vzvb5t54)
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Cover art, on a light cream background, is a finger-painted brown forearm and hand w/green fingerprints like leaves all over the fingers & thumb. All text in black.
[above the hand, justified left:]
FOREST
of NOISE
[below the hand & slightly to the right, small:]
poems
[below, next to the forearm, justified right, large:]
MOSAB
ABU TOHA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreidvulhkcs6w5xobwxrlhdhfctui6bdpwebhjh3jzwfoc5okzi7j5u)
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Cover art by Larassa Kabel is a b&w (& brown) nearly photorealistic image of a jackalope (rabbit with antlers) head/bust on a black background. A sharp, FAFO gleam in its big black eyes.
[In white, to the left over the black background:]
WINNER
OF THE
[image of a fist clutching an ink-dripping fountain pen inside a square white border. Below that, in its own border:]
PEN
OAKLAND
[below & without borders:]
JOSEPHINE
MILES AWARD
[Below the art, in the gray margin, all text is in black. Large:]
DEAR ANIMAL,
[to the right of the title, medium size:]
MK CHAVEZ
[also to the right of the title, just under author’s name, small:]
POEMS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreidz2ayjabfa4vvuyrcbgecakivnhjvfnmmwvpxxuhkyeq7w4vggom)
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Cover art is “Brothers and Sisters,” a painting by Jeff Koegel: even, vertical stripes of different, mostly earth-tone colors on khaki background look sort of like 3/4 of a flag.
In the top left cut-out quadrant, large raised lettering reads
[in tan:]
FOR
[white:]
EVERY ONE
[red brown:]
JASON
[dark brown:]
REYNOLDS
In small white typewriter-font, running sideways down the 2nd vertical (gray) stripe from the right:
A poem. A nod. A nothing to lose.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreifprta3hytkttsypysac6bmvpkxc6sena43gvlzwwdufxeafy2uui)
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Cover photo is looking up/out through tree branches/leaves (full dark in silhouette) to small bits of night-blue-green light.
All text in white & centered.
[tiny, at the top:]
"Carl Phillips combines beauty and insight... An exquisite collection."
—RON CHARLES, The Washington Post
[medium size:]
CARL PHILLIPS
[huge:]
THEN
THE
WAR
[small:]
AND SELECTED POEMS,
2007-2020
[in black in a gold circle/seal, bottom right
WINNER
of the
PULITZER
PRIZE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreifudma4gxh3slxjbpffh6ntimvd3jn4oq63ldkyovdou7e735xswi)
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Cover photo is of a monochromatic ombré—from extremely light (near white) blue to black-blue—calla lily flower & stem.
[in black in a silver circle/seal, upper left:]
WINNER
of the
PULITZER
PRIZE
All other text is in white.
[In middle, large, crossing over the lily stem between words:]
NATIVE GUARD
[slightly to the right of the stem, all text centered beneath the “UA” of GUARD from here down. In small cursive:]
Poems
[medium-large:]
Natasha
Trethewey
[image of a gold CD]
[tiny cursive:]
Includes a CD of poems read by the author](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreicoqrb6ltllniryfuoawzjlkwqdymqunocwqts7ptxm5hjis2hgwe)
![excerpt from poem IT'S A LITTLE ANXIOUS TO BE A VERY SMALL ANIMAL ENTIRELY SURROUNDED
we wrote [letters|checks|ads] against corruption
blamed [science|systems|depression] for our cities
when the [oceans|fires|droughts]came
when the [rain||bomb|flu]came
we [weathered|welcomed|watered] it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsiiruqnjgguppjbzxturfkz/bafkreib3xugkckheftdw2exmc3gxe5lcgmsc5wna2r35obmcq35ulkffgi)
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Cover is brick red. Text in gold.
[under 2 horizontal gold lines, the upper 1 thicker, & over another horizontal gold line, small:]
THE INAUGURAL POEM
[large, centered:]
ON
THE
PULSE
OF
MORNING
[dingbat that looks like overlapping ~s]
[medium, over 2 horizontal gold lines, the lower 1 thicker:]
MAYA ANGELOU](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreicaxdtxtxnnmkyh7lu6oubhgnk72v72hbfg7pkuc437xlecv7so2m)
