What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English By Anthony Madrid www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06... Via @parisreview.bsky.social

This class sold out fast 🙏. Waitlist available ✅

The most listened to episodes of the last half year. (in no particular order)

Reading tonight with Mónica Gomery and other luminous poets 💖 brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...

Crimson clover ♥️

Today's Featured Poem: "Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com. Read here: poems.com/poem/barzakh/

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

The Trump administration has removed a photograph display honoring the victims of gun violence at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

From Jenny George’s AFTER IMAGE

It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.

Issam Zineh’s UNCEDED LAND “is a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.” Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...

Today's class focuses on poems from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social , @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @ralpheeboi.bsky.social 🌟

Shared this poem with my students today. Offering it here as a meditation on language and possibility. @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/a-seam-...

Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth

"theft can be a shepherd the sky someone’s steeple and here the doctrine that killed Palestinian people" - SM Badawi in diode poetry full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/ @smbadawi.bsky.social

I would ask that you consider the doe, how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a bullet makes a trophy of her

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

“Seeking others, Moon Mirrored Indivisible is also a kind of invitation to those who would be my people. And one of the ways we’ll know one another is by our comfort, even entitlement to sensory pleasure in language”

new author site: www.faridmatuk.com

New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social

DIODE 18.1 LIVE diodepoetry.com

@majda.bsky.social on @poetrydaily.bsky.social 🌟🌟🌟

We practiced / our answers as if they were prayers; say it / like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body / from an empty ceiling.

"once, i bled into a bed somewhere off i-25 near belén. back when i spoke the language of my body even less than i do now," This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh

I received an invitation from PEN America. I declined. In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud. I believe daylight matters. Here is the text of my response:

This made my Friday 🥹 ❣️. And thank you to @atmosphericquarterly.com for the original publication 🙏

My first reader 😍

New course offering this spring. Hosted by PCC’s community ed program. Registration opens March 5th and seniors get a discount! I can’t wait to read and write poems with you 💖

From Ocean Vuong’s Time Is A Mother

My poem "Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951" was published in @tahomareview.bsky.social today! Thank you @jessicacuello.bsky.social! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e...

History says we forgave the executioner. —Sharif

Cannot wait for the world to read this powerful book!!!! Congrats to my dear friend Mónica Gomery ❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨

From WATER & SALT. @lenakt.bsky.social carrying me through difficult times 🖤

Friday evening with Kaveh Akbar and Mahadeviyakka

Friday morning with Kaveh Akbar

AUTOCORRECT: @autocorrectmag.bsky.social Please follow and share to get the word out--I'm now reading submissions for the first issue!

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

With thanks to the @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social editors for selecting “When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth” as the 2024 Majda Gama Editors’ Prize.

I'm asked sometimes: "Why is there so much history of contemporary war in your poetry?" I've answered: "Because it's not me that writes it, it's history that writes it." —Etel Adnan, The Beauty of Light, tr. Ethan Mitchell

Sunday morning with John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.

So excited to have a poem in the latest issue of The Iowa Review. You can purchase a copy here: iowareview.org/issue/volume...

Again and again and again and again and again

From @philipmetres.bsky.social Fugitive/Refuge

Book Mail! 📚🌟

One more story to add to the inaccuracies of AI: my 8th grader asked AI for a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird. It gave him one that doesn't exist and I warned him of that. He spent an hour searching the book to prove me wrong. It felt so good to be right and for him to learn a valuable lesson! 😈

Have you submitted to the 2024 Laureate Prize yet? Head over to our website for details: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize • #poetryprize #poetrysubmissions #poetry #callforpoetry #opencall #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

Edward Said on discovering the power and solidarity of speaking Arabic in school.

Delighted to share space in this issue of @rustandmoth.bsky.social with my friend @readinstead.bsky.social. I’m always in awe of Jared’s ekphrasis poems. This one haunts 🖤💔

A very personal poem of mine, "Wheatfield with Crows," was published by @rustandmoth.bsky.social today: rustandmoth.com/work/wheatfi...

“The nonmetaphorical nature of our permission to narrate can be seen in the details of the post-National Book Award Nomination trajectory for both poets, with NPR censoring words such as ‘genocide’ in their coverage.”