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If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with Francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce,

Join us this week for our Reading Series with Christopher Rey Pérez, Ruth Awad 🇵🇸 & Danez, Rick Barot's book launch, a craft lab fundraiser with Danez, drop-ins with Ramya Ramana & Keith S. Wilson, and free community groups! Learn more at: mailchi.mp/brooklynpoets/…

but the spray of scorpion grass keeps growing, and the dogs will sing their whole bodies in praise of you, and the redbuds will lay —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Ruth Awad 🇵🇸 brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…

and you’ll heavy the whining floorboards of the house you filled with animals as hurt and lost as you, and the bearded irises will form —#PoetoftheWeek Ruth Awad 🇵🇸 reads her feature poem "Reasons to Live" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

It’s not okay to murder Arab men either, by the way.

maybe my favorite thing about meeting Ruth Awad 🇵🇸 was everything!!! her poems!!! her reading of poems, my goodness!!! but also, it was both of us seriously being like…now wtf is indiana

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So late on this but…. Thrilled to announce our BOTN nominations!

The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.' Solmaz Sharif

Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.

“More children have been killed in Gaza in 6 months than the total number of children killed in all other war zones worldwide over 3 years, multiplied by 4.” “Do you hear what I’m saying?” —Norman Finkelstein

Merry Christmas from Palestine 🇵🇸

Don't recall ever holding a book and feeling an immediate surge of tears. A narrator of Palestine, of an unfathomable loss that ultimately snatched him away from us too.

Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide UN Report: Israel is committing genocide Genocide Scholars: Israel is committing genocide Biden: Here’s another $8,000,000,000 for Israel Democrats: Biden is a decent man

I can think of no more perfect image to encapsulate the modern Democratic Party than this sundowning butcher, this lamest of lame ducks, doddering out of the rose garden to press the KILL MORE PALESTINIANS button for the 100th time like it’s a morphine pump in a hospice.

If you’re a professor at Columbia or NYU—tenured or otherwise—it is so important that you continue to voice your outrage at the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech. If you haven’t spoken up yet, now is the time. This fight is being lost.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023.