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So what's the plan here? We just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments? And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing

—Samuel Beckett

Israel (facing multiple proceedings for atrocities in Gaza) "wasn't given a suggestion by the ICJ. It was given a legal order." States now calling for ceasefire HAVE MULTIPLE OBLIGATIONS to ensure Israel ends it unlawful occupation and genocide NOW. SANCTIONS+ARMS EMBARGO NOW.

Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

Mark Nepo: "I am so sad and everything is beautiful." *more poems linked in bio ✨

“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon / that shocks you / into being”   — Maggie Nelson . . . This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Dancer Danni Perry raised a Palestine flag during their curtain call at the Royal Opera House, risking their career to speak out for Gaza: “I chose to do my demonstration during my curtain call, a moment for myself. I chose to make it about something bigger than me.” They say

Zachary Schomburg ~ This is some kind of bravery.

Carl Jung didn’t have to go that hard, but he did.

Tomas Tranströmer, tr. Patty Crane ~ I must go out into the greenness that's filled with memories, and they follow me with their gaze.

“What you seek is seeking you.”

There are so so few people with genuine empathy, moral decency, or courage in the world. Gaza is a mirror to the brutal beast behind every persona. The horror is not what humans are capable of, the horror is that this is what we are as humans- every single one of us.

no final solution is ever final or a solution, yet in these days of the Israeli-Western final solution against the Palestinians, it becomes clearer how so many who "lifted up" our voices did so to buy our silence over their complicity

“I am the rain // and the others all / around you, and the loneliness you love, / and the universe that loves you specifically, maybe”  — Franz Wright . . . This poem appeared in Ill Lit: Selected and New Poems by Franz Wright, published by Oberlin College Press, 1998.

“And they searched his chest / But could only find his heart / And they searched his heart / But could only find his people”  — Mahmoud Darwish . . . This poem appeared in Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Repost via AJ+: Hungarian Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté survived the Holocaust as an infant. His Jewish grandparents were killed in Auschwitz. After visiting the concentration camp for the first time, Dr. Maté spoke to AJ+ about how it compares with Israel’s forced

This is fascinating: The music of trees – improvisation, iteration, and the science of immortality themarginalian.org/2021/09/03/old…

Next week: Issue 4 drops, and we reopen for submissions the next day. Busy enough! #WritingCommunity

Dublin was appointed a UNESCO City of Literature on this day 15 years ago. I am delighted to be one of the instigators of this prestigious designation, and it was an honour to work with Jane Alger and the dynamic teams Dublin City Libraries and Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Dublin UNESCO Patrick O'Donovan