BREAKING: About 140 U.S. troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including eight severely, the Pentagon says.

Desalination is the source of water security in Gulf countries.

Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon almost every day for over a year. Anyone who tells you “Hezbollah broke the ceasefire” is either lying to you, or is just so incredibly biased that their brain genuinely doesn’t register Israeli bombings of Lebanon as ceasefire violations.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

As the US and Israel attack Iran, read @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece from this week on why Trump's war of choice could be even more catastrophic than the Iraq War. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“Praise the Great Blue Heron, sister of waterfall and cedar” So excited for these poems in @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy! A folio of poems & visual art from Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Wa State Birds. Thanks @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social & everyone! www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Looking for a good writing podcast? Flash reader Christina D’Antoni recommends BETWEEN THE COVERS by David Naimon. "Especially the Bhanu Kapil and Caren Beilin episodes. There are SO many good ones, but I've saved those two in particular when I need to let a little extra light in. ✨ "

Today we're highlighting Joan Kwon Glass’ poem MASCOT from our JANUARY ISSUE. ✨ You can read about the inspiration behind her piece right here: buff.ly/SJABLw5

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.

Sunday morning with John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.