“Trying to conjure a word sound that doesn't exist in English creates a scaffolding for poetic reconstruction of the extractive colonial violence that rendered the phooti karpas cotton extinct.” Read three #poems by @sophianaz.bsky.social. #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

My poetry interrogates the precarious present in light of our colonial past #poetry #immigrantrights #war #desi phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Full article: Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SCZUG...

A poem by Renée Nicole Macklin, brutally murdered yesterday by ICE poets.org/2020-on-lear... #abolishICE #justiceforRenée

Classic short fiction on the Nakba by Palestinian writer Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani (1914-1974), tr. Amr El-Zawawy. "The Last Bullet": arablit.org/2025/12/16/c...

Do join us for the debut performance of Mirrored Gestures at the Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library Sept 28 at 4pm #poetry #dance #SFPL

My poem ‘ Night Sequins’ at SWWIM x Matwaala @sepoy.bsky.social @afilreis.bsky.social

Bay Area folks, looking forward to seeing you on the 6th of June at #MedicineForNightmares

My poem "To Bear the Right" is the Poem of the Day on poets.org/poem-a-day @nerudap.bsky.social @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social #poets.org #poemaday #poetsrespond @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Calla Lily, Spring 2025 #callalily

A review of Bark Archipelago by Shweta Rao Garg, as I leave FB I am posting these links as an introduction to new folks and a retrospective for those who know my work. www.beltwaypoetry.com/language-a-d... #poetrybooks

Inferno, Sumi ink and watercolor. Having lost my home to wildfires in 2017 it’s especially heartbreaking and triggering to watch the immense scale of devastation in LA. I’m painting what is burned in my psyche. #lafire #climatecrisis

Today’s Featured Poem: “Selected Poems of Malcolm de Chazal” translated by Sara Nicholson, from the First Summer Issue of Common Place. Read here: poems.com/poem/selecte...

Adieu Ustad Zakir Hussain, a huge and unfathomable loss for the world of music. youtu.be/GSsiq02Zt6s?...

www.beltwaypoetry.com/language-a-d... Shweta Rao Garg reviews Bark Archipelago