“I don’t do politics” Well baby, politics is going to do you, regardless.

Eyes on Rafah...thank you, L.A.

Palestine seems to be on everyone's mind here in Afghanistan. Multiple strangers have brought up Gaza to me and gotten emotional speaking about the genocide. There is almost a universal desire to help the Palestinians in whatever way possible, despite economic hardships.

Please please help donate to this campaign & share widely if you can. This is to help the family of a brilliant writer we published with Mizna recently & I really hope people help boost & give to this 🇵🇸🍉

Excited to finally share the cover of my next poetry collection, SCORCHED EARTH! Pub date: March 4, 2025. Cover art by the incomparable Kara Walker. 8 years in the making! Pre-order link in my bio.

a new poem in The Yale Review

Finally picked up Dorothy Chan 🍒’s new poetry collection cause my local bookstore takes forever to ship new releases from small presses but omg this book has my heart already!!

There is no war in Gaza. There is a genocide in Gaza. There is an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza. There is a human-induced famine in Gaza. There is no war in Gaza. Stop calling this a war.

After a final proofing push last night & months of labor in a catastrophic time, it's so amazing to see the cinema issue off to the printer! This is our most ambitious project yet: a boxed set with the journal, cinema tickets & posters, a Larissa Sansour BTS notebook & more!

Even in her own GoFundMe, Bisan is encouraging donating to a friend's GoFundMe. May we all learn from such generosity & selflessness & deep interconnectedness. Please continue to give if you can. gofundme.com/f/cggu3-help-u…

For Pride Month, Academy of American Poets made a folio of poems by Lambda Literary is on Bluesky finalists/winners, archiving this one from SHORT FILM 🎞️

I have hard work behind me and hard work ahead of me still. Nonetheless, I’m blessed to be able to bring this book to y’all. Thank you to @marisasaystweet, parneshia jones and Northwestern University Press for their belief in and partnership on this collection!

Our Summer 2024 issue is live! Feat. the Extinction folio w/ Jess Abughattas, Saddiq Dzukogi, @mespadapoet, Lee Conell, Taneum Bambrick, and more! Guest edited by David Baker, the latest Nature’s Nature feat. Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي, ariana benson, Jasmine Reid. kenyonreview.org/journal/summer…

It’s hot. Water is precious. Families keep their children engaged by sending them to water and food lines. It becomes a social event. She brings her doll along. Gaza.

thrilled to share one of a handful of new poems (my first post-book poems 😬) in the stunning Kenyon Review summer issue Nature’s Nature folio, introduced by the inimitable Evie Shockley—what an honor to be read by, *seen* by, Evie Shockley 💫 here is “On Loveliness” 🐞🐞🐞

“On this night, from the bathroom floor, I sent him the clip of Deb’s skunk haven, and he responded: Do you love me more than you love a skunk?” “Slunk” by Taneum Bambrick is brimming with wisdom and earnest observation. Read it in our Summer '24 issue: kenyonreview.org/piece/slunk/