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Chase Berggrun

@patriphobe.bsky.social
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• poet • organizer • trans lesbian • author of R E D (erasures of Bram Stoker's Dracula) (@Birdsllc 2018) • she/her • 🇵🇸 free palestine 🇵🇸 www.chaseberggrun.com

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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I'll be reading some blisteringly political poems on Tuesday April 14 at @poetshouse.bsky.social! poetshouse.org/event/new-wo...
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New Works Poetry Reading: Berggrun, Camp, Pinto, and Waldman
Join us for an eclectic evening of new poetry from four poets: Chase Berggrun, Lauren Camp, Megan Pinto, and D.S. Waldman.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
8 years sober, today (coin courtesy of my wonderful sober mother)
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I’m so so pumped to be teaching this class, online via @poetshouse.bsky.social, a syllabus of poets fundamental not just to my poetics but my personhood. Come read with me! poetshouse.org/event/semina...
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I’m teaching a five week seminar on erasure for @poetrysociety.org ! Come read and think and play with me! Discount code “FallLearning20” gets you 20% off. More here: poetrysociety.org/events/crash...
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Erasures & Appropriated Text: A Crash Course with Chase Berggrun
Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is infuriating, unsurprising, and absolute bullshit. A @penamerica.bsky.social employee has been fired from a "free speech" organization for ... practicing free speech. Shame on PEN y e t a g a i n. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/pen-...
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PEN America claims to support free speech, but fired me for speaking about Palestine
The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection ...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The real beauty of reading: No two readers experience the same book in the same way. @themountaingoats.bsky.social doesn’t dig the footnotes in The Competition of Unfinished Stories; @patriphobe.bsky.social loves them (as do we). Form your own opinion in November when this Kurdish novel is out.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New York! I’m teaching a class on the poetics of resistance this summer at Brooklyn Poets! Come join us.
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
How can we, as writers & as human beings, reject the hollowing violence of neutrality? In this 6 week, in-person workshop w/ @patriphobe.bsky.social, we'll explore poetics as a vehicle of change, as a call to action & as part & parcel of the work of opposing empire. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
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Poetics of Resistance — Brooklyn Poets
How can we, as writers and as human beings, reject the hollowing violence of neutrality in favor of a poetry that stands as tall as our bodies in the streets? In this six-week, in-person workshop, we ...
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
7 years ago, Birds LLC helped me bring R E D into the world! I am so grateful for the readers & teachers who spent time with this text, & the way it has resisted the truncated lifecycle of a poetry collection: for the generosity you have all afforded my lil book. birdsllc.com/news/happy-p...
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Happy Pub Day R E D
Friends, Today is the official publication date for R E D, by Chase Berggrun! It’s available now as a Handpicked title for May from SPD. Get 20% off with code HANDPICKED. ...
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A new essay in @poetryfoundation.bsky.social, on the politics & pitfalls of erasure (I too dislike it), my own history with the form, Srikanth Reddy’s Voyager, & the process & experience of writing my erasure of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, R E D, is now online! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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“A slow and difficult process that verged on the ridiculous”: On…
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
As part of a Palestine Studies cluster hire, Hunter College is honored to announce its search for two open-rank tenure-line professors, with an expected start date in Fall 2025, in Palestinian studies with one in the social sciences and the other in the humanities
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Small press knowledge means needing the perfect birthday gift and ordering directly from the press because you know it will be far, far faster than even your local indie bookstore 📚💙 Support your local poetry presses, readers! #NationalPoetryMonth @patriphobe.bsky.social
R E D by Chase Berggrun (Birds, LLC)
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@susanabulhawa.bsky.social on PEN America's refusal to acknowledge the genocide in Palestine: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/susa...
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Susan Abulhawa’s response to PEN America’s complicity with genocide
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you've been nominated for a 2025 PEN America award, please get in touch via email or DM!
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This "FAQ" is a direct response to WAWOG's demands, though it answers not a single one of them. Instead, point by point, they double down on their hypocrisies. Predictably, their response merely illuminates the need to continue boycotting this shameless org. pen.org/an-faq-from-...
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An FAQ from PEN America - PEN America
We thank the members of our community who have spoken to us about their concerns, and want to be transparent in sharing publicly the information we have shared with them.
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I received an invitation from PEN America. I declined. In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud. I believe daylight matters. Here is the text of my response:
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
THE BOYCOTT STANDS! Despite the ouster of Suzanne Nossel after concerted pressure from thousands of writers, @penamerica.bsky.social has made no effort toward repair or meeting any of our demands. More info here: www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-pen-...
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Pierre Joris' poetry and his translations of Paul Celan changed my life. Breathturn Into Timestead, his rendering of Celan's later books, transformed my conception of what a poem is and can do. He was an inimitable steward of language, bringing light to everything he touched.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
and yet PEN has been silent for decades as "Israel" has tortured and murdered thousands of political prisoners. I guess hostages are only hostages if they're not Palestinians.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
AWP, SMD: a guide to genocidal panels at AWP this year -
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An excellent-as-always piece in @nplusonemag.com by Saree Makdisi, excoriating American institutions like PEN America for constructing and reinforcing the foundations upon which genocide is built: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Do you know R E D by @patriphobe.bsky.social? Teaches like a dream. I’d need to think more about contemporary poetry that engages Victorian *poetry* directly…
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22/01/2025
Budget documents obtained by Mondoweiss show how the JNF supports the same violent Israeli settlers who were recently sanctioned by the Biden administration. Advocates say the organization itself should come under U.S. government scrutiny as well. mondoweiss.net/2025/01/how-the-jewi……
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How the Jewish National Fund abets U.S.-sanctioned settlers
Budget documents obtained by Mondoweiss show how the JNF supports the same violent Israeli settlers who were recently sanctioned by the Biden administration. Advocates say the organization itself should...
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Awoke with the indisputable understanding that if I was a transmasc enby I’d go by “Kestrel”
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Please help support @israsaid.bsky.social if you are able gofund.me/8138afa0
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Donate to Save the rest of my family in Gaza, organized by Israa Abusaid
Hello everyone, I am Israa Abusaid and I'm organising this fundraiser to request … Israa Abusaid needs your support for Save the rest of my family in Gaza
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 24/12/2024
Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza on Christmas Eve. Israel has been killing Palestinians every day for more than a year. Every day, Palestinians in Gaza face new and unimaginable horrors and massacres. The U.S. supports, funds, and is complicit in this genocide.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 23/12/2024
Leila Khaled reflects on her lifetime of resistance, the significance of October 7 for the global solidarity movement, and the way forward for Palestinian liberation. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/october-7-pr……
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‘October 7 proved the importance of the struggle to the world’: an interview with Palestinian icon Leila Khaled
Leila Khaled reflects on her lifetime of resistance, the significance of October 7 for the global solidarity movement, and the way forward for Palestinian liberation.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
John K Samson signed the Refusing Complicity letter 🥰 now we just need John Darnielle and Ben Gibbard to round out my fave indie white guys trifecta
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The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨 Just 2 weeks left to submit! 🚨 In honor of the poet Gerald Stern, APR is happy to announce a new book award – The Stern Prize. The prize is open to all poets age 50 and over, regardless of previous publication history. For guidelines, go to americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Rest in peace and power, Nikki Giovanni. Your language of revolution and love will live on. We'll remember, too, that one of your last public acts was to stand in solidarity with Palestine and take PEN America and the Brooklyn Museum to task for refusing to do so hyperallergic.com/875659/brook...
A Journey
Nikki Giovanni 


It's a journey ... that I propose ... I am not the guide ... nor
technical assistant ... I will be your fellow passenger ...

Though the rail has been ridden ... winter clouds cover autumn's exuberant quilt ... we must provide our own guide-posts

I have heard ... from previous visitors ... the road washes out
sometimes ... and passengers are compelled ... to continue
groping ... or turn back... I am not afraid...

I am not afraid ... of rough spots ... or lonely times ... I don't fear ... the success of this endeavo r... I am Ra ... in a space
... not to be discovered ... but invented

I promise you nothing ... I accept your promise ... of the
same we are simply riding ... a wave ... that may carry ... or
crash …

It's a journey ... and I want ... to go ...
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024
it is still fuck @penamerica.bsky.social "This is so funny to me. Like, "We'd like to dispel the circulating rumors that we've grown a conscience. We reassure our members that we remain as cowardly as ever." No PACBI for PEN." Abdelrahman ElGendy
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Abdelrahman ElGendy
@El_Gendy_95
This is so funny to me. Like, "We'd like to dispel the circulating rumors that we've grown a conscience. We reassure our members that we remain as cowardly as ever."

No PACBI for PEN. https://x.com/PENamerica/sta/PENamerica/status/1866166518133743689
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We are aware of a fake press release circulating online misrepresenting our organization. This is NOT from us, and we are taking steps to address it. For accurate information, please visit http://pen.org.tweet:

@kylietcheung
"we are being accused of doing the right thing. we want to clarify
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Turns out this was fake, guess it’s back to FUCK PEN AMERICA
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Tomorrow in Brooklyn!
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A poem by my We Are Not Numbers mentee in Gaza, Huda Skaik: wearenotnumbers.org/still-resist...
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Still resisting - We Are Not Numbers
The sun rises over Gaza / piercing another suffocating night / after the atrocities of an endless siege.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
What more can be said beyond this? There is nothing whatsoever to debate. x.com/susanabulhaw...
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
love this new holiday tradition
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"I don’t want anything from anyone. I don’t pray for help or seek assistance or sympathy…All I want is…to write the history of things no one else will ever write for me. I want to carve the least of my feelings with a chisel on a stone next to the highway." — Mourid Barghouti
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
May every morsel of food rot in our mouths, each and every one of us, today and every day while the children of Gaza continue to starve
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
great, another social media platform where people I used to respect remain silent about the genocide in Gaza
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Please join us on Wednesday at 8 PM ET for a gathering/poem-sharing/fundraiser/call to action with some human beings I deeply adore and admire: bit.ly/poetsforpalestine
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
There is no intelligible argument that holds up against the facts of apartheid & ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The propaganda machine that the Israelis have been relying on for decades is well oiled & effective, but built on the shakiest of foundations. It deserves to crumble.
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
from JOURNAL OF AN ORDINARY GRIEF by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi
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