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Arab American Poet
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
BREAKING: About 140 U.S. troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including eight severely, the Pentagon says.
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Live updates: Iran fires drones toward Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
Iranian fired drones towards Saudi Arabia and Kuwait early Tuesday as the war in the Middle East shows no sign of abating.
https://bit.ly/4bBnCpG
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Majda Gama
3 months ago
Desalination is the source of water security in Gulf countries.
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Omar Baddar
3 months ago
Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon almost every day for over a year. Anyone who tells you âHezbollah broke the ceasefireâ is either lying to you, or is just so incredibly biased that their brain genuinely doesnât register Israeli bombings of Lebanon as ceasefire violations.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak
3 months ago
âThe 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.â James Baldwin
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former âFox & Friendsâ guest and a former âFox & Friendsâ host.
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The Nation Magazine
3 months ago
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...
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Trumpâs Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than Iraq
Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-iran-war-threats-iraq/
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Paul Hlava Ceballos
3 months ago
âPraise the Great Blue Heron, sister of waterfall and cedarâ 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...
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Bird Songs
The latest in our poetry series features work from a new avian-themed anthologyâand original paintings.
https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2026/02/bird-poems-birdbrains-anthology
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Andy
3 months ago
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.
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âNo one deserves thisâ: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
https://www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/no-one-deserves-this-beaverton-father-dies-after-deportation-mexico/
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Split Lip Magazine
4 months ago
Looking for a good writing podcast? Flash reader Christina DâAntoni 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. ⨠"
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Split Lip Magazine
4 months ago
Today we're highlighting Joan Kwon Glassâ poem MASCOT from our JANUARY ISSUE. ⨠You can read about the inspiration behind her piece right here:
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BuriedInPrint
11 months ago
What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English By Anthony Madrid
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
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What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English by Anthony Madrid
June 24, 2025 â "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. Iâm saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/24/what-goes-wrong-when-we-write-ghazals-in-english/
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This class sold out fast đ. Waitlist available â
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David Naimon
about 1 year ago
The most listened to episodes of the last half year. (in no particular order)
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Reading tonight with MĂłnica Gomery and other luminous poets đ
brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
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Brooklyn Poets Spring Virtual Workshop Showcase â Brooklyn Poets
Join us for our spring Virtual Workshop Showcase on Monday, May 19th, at 7:00 PM (ET) as teachers Monica Gomery, Seth Leeper and Jaz Sufi read from their work and personally introduce r...
https://brooklynpoets.org/events/all/bpws-51925
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Poetry Daily
about 1 year ago
Today's Featured Poem: "Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of
@nybooks.com
. Read here:
poems.com/poem/barzakh/
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Barzakh
You scrub from my throat the darkness that sticks to songs traveling at the speed of light.
https://poems.com/poem/barzakh/
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Todayâs class focuses on poems from
@ruthawad.bsky.social
âs Outside the Joy &
@gabriellebates.bsky.social
Judas Goat đ
about 1 year ago
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Hyperallergic
about 1 year ago
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.
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Trump Officials Take Down Memorial to Gun Violence Victims
The display at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, DC, featured portraits of nearly 120 people, including children killed in mass school shootings.
https://hyperallergic.com/1010134/trump-officials-take-down-memorial-to-gun-violence-victims/
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From Jenny Georgeâs AFTER IMAGE
about 1 year ago
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C.T. Salazar
about 1 year ago
It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voicesâ Mississippi Delta-themed issue â¤ď¸ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)
about 1 year ago
Issam Zinehâs UNCEDED LAND âis a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.â Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
and year-round reading:
bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
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Today's class focuses on poems from
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@joankwonglass.bsky.social
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@jessicacuello.bsky.social
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@ralpheeboi.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Shared this poem with my students today. Offering it here as a meditation on language and possibility.
@poetrydaily.bsky.social
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A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)
Language is breaking apart in our hands.
https://poems.com/poem/a-seam-of-electricity/
about 1 year ago
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Megan Savage
about 1 year ago
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
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Chiara Di Lello
about 1 year ago
"theft can be a shepherd the sky someoneâs steeple and here the doctrine that killed Palestinian people" - SM Badawi in diode poetry full poem here:
diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
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After seeing the headline âIsraelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozersâ I sit in the dew dawn of silence prayer against the metal gray hour gray owl to interrupt kingdom so quiet my olives, my olives kin & spray of dirt whoever carries caskets to bear trees shall inherit the kingdom a kingdom and [âŚ]
http://diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
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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 crosshairâs stare, until a bullet makes a trophy of her
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about 1 year ago
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Prem Thakker ă
about 1 year ago
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 â and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
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âSeeking others, Moon Mirrored Indivisible is also a kind of invitation to those who would be my people. And one of the ways weâll know one another is by our comfort, even entitlement to sensory pleasure in languageâ
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Farid Matuk
about 1 year ago
new author site:
www.faridmatuk.com
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FARID MATUK
https://www.faridmatuk.com/
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New poem in
@diodeeditions.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Diode
about 1 year ago
DIODE 18.1 LIVE
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about 1 year ago
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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.
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about 1 year ago
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Split Lip Magazine
about 1 year ago
"once, i bled into a bed somewhere off i-25 near belĂŠn. 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
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
about 1 year ago
I received an invitation from PEN America. I declined. In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PENâs silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud. I believe daylight matters. Here is the text of my response:
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This made my Friday 𼚠âŁď¸. And thank you to
@atmosphericquarterly.com
for the original publication đ
over 1 year ago
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My first reader đ
over 1 year ago
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New course offering this spring. Hosted by PCCâs community ed program. Registration opens March 5th and seniors get a discount! I canât wait to read and write poems with you đ
over 1 year ago
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From Ocean Vuongâs Time Is A Mother
over 1 year ago
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Jared Beloff
over 1 year ago
My poem "Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951" was published in
@tahomareview.bsky.social
today! Thank you
@jessicacuello.bsky.social
!
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Chen Chen
over 1 year ago
History says we forgave the executioner. âSharif
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Cannot wait for the world to read this powerful book!!!! Congrats to my dear friend MĂłnica Gomery â¤ď¸â¨â¤ď¸â¨â¤ď¸â¨
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over 1 year ago
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From WATER & SALT.
@lenakt.bsky.social
carrying me through difficult times đ¤
over 1 year ago
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Friday evening with Kaveh Akbar and Mahadeviyakka
over 1 year ago
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Friday morning with Kaveh Akbar
over 1 year ago
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Adam Clay
over 1 year ago
AUTOCORRECT:
@autocorrectmag.bsky.social
Please follow and share to get the word out--I'm now reading submissions for the first issue!
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Jehad Abusalim
over 1 year ago
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or eventâevery theater, every archive, every historic landmark and siteâhas been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
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Issam Zineh
over 1 year ago
With thanks to the
@tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social
editors for selecting âWhen We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Mythâ as the 2024 Majda Gama Editorsâ Prize.
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When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth (Winner of the 2024 Majda Gama Editorsâ Prize) | Tinderbox Poetry Journal
https://tinderboxpoetry.com/when-we-look-at-ancient-mesopotamian-myth
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Sunday morning with John Bergerâs Ways of Seeing.
over 1 year ago
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