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Babies in incubators are left to die. Children are shot through the neck. Parents dig through rubble for the body parts of their kids. Doctors are tortured to death. 900 families are wiped from the earth. All while safe, wealthy Americans condemn protest chants and keffiyehs.

No. This child is not “surviving Gaza”. He’s surviving a US-Israeli holocaust that left him paraplegic. Mahmoud, only 9 years old.

Thanks to everyone who came out this month to Hungry Brain for the Sunday Reading Series to see Nancy Miller Gomez, Leah Umansky, & Faisal Mohyuddin Mohyuddin! Event co-hosted with Kenyatta Rogers. Shout out to Jet Fuel Review editor Kat Svehla who was in attendance as well!

Final schedule's nailed down at last for SALT PRUNING readings, yay! Excited for my collaborative poetry collection w/ poet David Allen Sullivan. Hope to see you, friends! 🥰🌺🌈 Pls share, thx! Nina Sudhakar, RoscoeBooks, Tommy Dean (is open to queries) Faisal Mohyuddin Ben Tanzer Book Cellar

Ceasefire Haiku

My tweet upset James Woods and he blocked me and said some bad words about me. 😡😡😡

This comes out next month. Scary! For translation rights, contact: [email protected]. I need it in German, especially. And to request review copies or interviews, write to [email protected].

“I demand that the American Library Association issue a statement condemning the destruction of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza and boycott Israeli libraries and cultural institution.” -Mosab Abu Toha Literary Hub American Library Association lithub.com/read-mosab-abu…

Truly grateful to South Asia Institute, Shireen Ahmad, Afzal Ahmad, & the fab SAI crew, w/ Brian Keigher for making yesterday's reading event for SALT PRUNING so memorable. And huge thanks to Nina Sudhakar & Faisal Mohyuddin for your great readings! 👏🧡🔥🌈🌺🌏

If you work in US publishing and have spoken out about 🇺🇸 book bans but have nothing to say about this, or the complete decimation of Gaza’s literary sector, or the killing of dozens of 🇵🇸 writers since Oct 7 (all funded by our taxes), I don’t know what to say to you anymore.

Friends! Sunday Salon Chicago's next reading event is on Zoom on Feb 23rd at 6pm CT, & features Mary Kay Zuravleff, Mary Biddinger, Laura Van Prooyen, francinewitte & Pat Boomsma. Read their bios at sundaysalon-chicago.com & register for the Zoom event 🌺🌺🌺🔥🌈🌏 Pls share, TY!

New piece today ✌🏾

Huge congrats Virginia Bell on the launch of your hybrid poetry collection "LIFTING CHILD FROM THE GROUND, TURNING AROUND" on Glass Lyre Press. TY for inviting me to read! Great space in Oak Park & great vibes all around. So nice to see RHINO Poetry friends & others!

"I felt as if I was suspended upon a bridge made of light—my father holding up one end, my mother the other." Read today's #FlashFiction piece, "Eternity" by Faisal Mohyuddin (Faisal Mohyuddin), in #TheMargins. ⏳ aaww.org/eternity/

MIZNA: FUTURITIES PRE-ORDER NOW mizna.org/product/mizna-… Mizna 25.2, Futurities invites you to face the status quo governing our present, exercise your imagination, and invoke alternative worlds. Guest editors Barrak Alzaid and Aram Kavoossi. Visual art by Siah Armajani

I have 3 new poems in this issue. 2 are love poems 💚✨