Reposted by SM BadawiEcoTheo Collective @ecotheo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Cover reveal for EcoTheo Review's Winter 2025 edition! This edition features cover art by Janina Aza Karpinska, as well as prose by Gregory Greevy and Maya Rose, poetry from SM Badawi and others, art by Moey Hewitt, Jennifer Case, and many more! To purchase, click the link in our bio 041
Reposted by SM BadawiEcoTheo Collective @ecotheo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026"Poem in which I try to understand Hajar's submission" by SM Badawi Read more by clicking the link in our bio! #EcoTheoReview #creativewriting #literature #celebratewonder #poetry 021
Reposted by SM BadawiThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/03/2026BREAKING: About 140 U.S. troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including eight severely, the Pentagon says. bit.lyLive updates: Iran fires drones toward Saudi Arabia and KuwaitIranian fired drones towards Saudi Arabia and Kuwait early Tuesday as the war in the Middle East shows no sign of abating. 2317685
Reposted by SM BadawiMajda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Desalination is the source of water security in Gulf countries. 03918
Reposted by SM BadawiOmar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon almost every day for over a year. Anyone who tells you “Hezbollah broke the ceasefire” is either lying to you, or is just so incredibly biased that their brain genuinely doesn’t register Israeli bombings of Lebanon as ceasefire violations. 24555272
Reposted by SM BadawiSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin 1129821166
Reposted by SM BadawiPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/02/2026The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host. 9940741057
Reposted by SM BadawiThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 28/02/2026As the US and Israel attack Iran, read @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece from this week on why Trump's war of choice could be even more catastrophic than the Iraq War. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comTrump’s Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than IraqRemarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism. 2613966
Reposted by SM BadawiPaul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social · 24/02/2026“Praise the Great Blue Heron, sister of waterfall and cedar” So excited for these poems in @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy! A folio of poems & visual art from Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Wa State Birds. Thanks @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social & everyone! www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...seattlemet.comBird SongsThe latest in our poetry series features work from a new avian-themed anthology—and original paintings. 2216
Reposted by SM BadawiAndy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...kptv.com‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to MexicoA Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died. 389130376560
Reposted by SM BadawiSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Looking for a good writing podcast? Flash reader Christina D’Antoni recommends BETWEEN THE COVERS by David Naimon. "Especially the Bhanu Kapil and Caren Beilin episodes. There are SO many good ones, but I've saved those two in particular when I need to let a little extra light in. ✨ " 183
Reposted by SM BadawiSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Today we're highlighting Joan Kwon Glass’ poem MASCOT from our JANUARY ISSUE. ✨ You can read about the inspiration behind her piece right here: buff.ly/SJABLw5 094
Reposted by SM BadawiBuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 25/06/2025What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English By Anthony Madrid www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06... Via @parisreview.bsky.socialtheparisreview.orgWhat Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English by Anthony MadridJune 24, 2025 – "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher." 043
Reposted by SM BadawiDavid Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025The most listened to episodes of the last half year. (in no particular order) 1296
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Reading tonight with Mónica Gomery and other luminous poets 💖 brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...brooklynpoets.orgBrooklyn Poets Spring Virtual Workshop Showcase — Brooklyn PoetsJoin us for our spring Virtual Workshop Showcase on Monday, May 19th, at 7:00 PM (ET) as teachers Monica Gomery, Seth Leeper and Jaz Sufi read from their work and personally introduce r... 041
Reposted by SM BadawiPoetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Today's Featured Poem: "Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com. Read here: poems.com/poem/barzakh/poems.comBarzakhYou scrub from my throat the darkness that sticks to songs traveling at the speed of light. 0149
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟 131
Reposted by SM BadawiHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 06/05/2025The Trump administration has removed a photograph display honoring the victims of gun violence at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.hyperallergic.comTrump Officials Take Down Memorial to Gun Violence VictimsThe display at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, DC, featured portraits of nearly 120 people, including children killed in mass school shootings. 51616
Reposted by SM BadawiC.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift. 083
Reposted by SM BadawiCommunity of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Issam Zineh’s UNCEDED LAND “is a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.” Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...bookshop.org 033
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Today's class focuses on poems from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social , @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @ralpheeboi.bsky.social 🌟 363
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Shared this poem with my students today. Offering it here as a meditation on language and possibility. @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/a-seam-...poems.comA Seam of Electricity (excerpt)Language is breaking apart in our hands. 022
Reposted by SM BadawiMegan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth 14922
Reposted by SM BadawiChiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"theft can be a shepherd the sky someone’s steeple and here the doctrine that killed Palestinian people" - SM Badawi in diode poetry full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/ @smbadawi.bsky.socialdiodepoetry.comS.M. BadawiAfter seeing the headline “Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers” I sit in the dew dawn of silence prayer against the metal gray hour gray owl to interrupt kingdom so quiet my olives, my olives kin & spray of dirt whoever carries caskets to bear trees shall inherit the kingdom a kingdom and […] 111
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I would ask that you consider the doe, how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a bullet makes a trophy of her 111
Reposted by SM BadawiPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown. 13893986559
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025“Seeking others, Moon Mirrored Indivisible is also a kind of invitation to those who would be my people. And one of the ways we’ll know one another is by our comfort, even entitlement to sensory pleasure in language” 000
Reposted by SM BadawiFarid Matuk @faridmatuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025new author site: www.faridmatuk.comfaridmatuk.comFARID MATUK 031
Reposted by SM BadawiDiode @diodeeditions.bsky.social · 15/03/2025DIODE 18.1 LIVE diodepoetry.com 064
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025We practiced / our answers as if they were prayers; say it / like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body / from an empty ceiling. 111
Reposted by SM BadawiSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 04/03/2025"once, i bled into a bed somewhere off i-25 near belén. back when i spoke the language of my body even less than i do now," This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh 1152
Reposted by SM BadawiLena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I 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: 13910
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This made my Friday 🥹 ❣️. And thank you to @atmosphericquarterly.com for the original publication 🙏 132
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025New course offering this spring. Hosted by PCC’s community ed program. Registration opens March 5th and seniors get a discount! I can’t wait to read and write poems with you 💖 052
Reposted by SM BadawiJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 21/02/2025My poem "Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951" was published in @tahomareview.bsky.social today! Thank you @jessicacuello.bsky.social! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e... 67921
Reposted by SM BadawiChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2025History says we forgave the executioner. —Sharif 421567
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Cannot wait for the world to read this powerful book!!!! Congrats to my dear friend Mónica Gomery ❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨ 1111
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025From WATER & SALT. @lenakt.bsky.social carrying me through difficult times 🖤 2105
Reposted by SM BadawiAdam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024AUTOCORRECT: @autocorrectmag.bsky.social Please follow and share to get the word out--I'm now reading submissions for the first issue! 0129
Reposted by SM BadawiJehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist. 181203718
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu)
