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If we are listening to The Lancet (July article) it’s likely that over 675,000 (some calculations are more like 1.125 million) Palestinians have been annihilated by Israel & paid for by the US in Gaza. Stop using the official numbers - they do not account for indirect deaths.

Since the early hours of morning, 47 people got murdered in Gaza.

Meanwhile blue hour

at the point in my grief memoir where i'm realizing that *not everything can go in it.* huge revelation lol. like, that i'll be continuing to write abt this experience beyond this manuscript. took me years of writing it to figure this out!

Z, a lodestar, your sound stays ringing in my ear

Saluting this exquisite untitled creature that Leonora Carrington brought into the world in 1959.

I spent half of this year intensely reading through Asian American fiction for my PhD. Still have more to read but here are 4 books that stood out the most. Books that disrupt the AA canon, that push what writing can do in innovative and challenging ways. Titles in next post.

Mahmoud Darwish, On Poetry, tr. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb

Lue’s Poetry Hour is out! It features Cass Donish 🐞 they/them Saba Keramati Jimin Seo : 서지민 Carly Joy Miller Sanam Sheriff صنم Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة @zeinabeck Austin Araujo Paul Hlava Ceballos Matthew Tuckner angel nafis Gabrielle Bates @NatashaOladokun Leila Chatti & more! Get into it: lutherxhughes.substack.com

We have an obligation to unlearn Zionism and then refute its lies at every opportunity. Here’s a great place to start:

Dear ones, if you can, please donate to this urgent fundraiser. I’m matching the first $1, 000 dollars. Support The Sameer Project's South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid & Medical fundraiser! Help us raise $1,000 --> which will mean $2,000 for this urgent campaign!

sad to report that workshop signups have been way down since the start of the new year. please don't forget about the small, regular amounts of aid to mutual aid groups which need thousands a day to provide for their people! upcoming workshops here: workshops4gaza.com/workshops

I’m a crier. And I cried when I read these words from Diane Seuss about my grief book—Diane, thank you so much for seeing this work, in this way ✨💜✨

I was at Pasadena City College and Santa Anita Racetrack last week, and you know who I saw on the ground? Small businesses, churches, community groups, hundreds of volunteers. And the people fighting the fires—incarcerated people, incarcerated youth. Not a single corporation.

TO MY DINÉ AND BORDERLANDS NATIVE RELATIVES: I'm truly horrified by this, and I'm so sorry. I'm sharing a google doc of rights and resources in the next tweet. If I can share anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Man. Remember when we used to be critical of DEI because it didn’t go far enough in creating structural change, it was just neoliberal institutional pandering meant only to satisfy representational quotas and tokenize talent? Those were the days ✨

Palestine, a poem by Etel Adnan, from We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine & Lebanon, eds. Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engels, 2007 Interlink Publishing:

"Both poets resist the temptation of catharsis, of insulting their readers—and their dead—with the idea that writing itself can somehow bring them peace." Eileen G'Sell looks at Virginia Konchan's "Requiem," and Cass Donish's "Your Dazzling Death." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-po…

Joshua Clover proteanmag.com/2024/07/06/poe…