I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

NYC says STOP THE GENOCIDE! 📢

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✨Soft Announcement ✨ FAITH FARM has found its home! I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance. Stay tuned!

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

✨Soft Announcement ✨ FAITH FARM has found its home! I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance. Stay tuned!

This has been moving at less than a trickle. Please donate and share so that Leqaa can be brought home.

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions! www.theweightjournal.com

So great to live in a country with two political parties in control, one that is actively fascist and the other that is passively fascist. You decide which is which.

Where are the disappeared? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

Trump is destroying and destabilizing people's lives in an effort to control powers that rightfully belong to Congress.

This is a disgusting, horrifying weaponization of the courts to continue the administration’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for free speech

Sigrid Nunez in the TLS.

Please also donate for his commissary and legal fees here t.co/7WfoxSd0u1

Please sign!

@aboodo75.bsky.social is currently injured and trapped in the red zone. Please help with a donation if you can.

Essential thread on the power that is held in who is mourned and who is memorialized.

“A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream”

Quick, essential listen

This family has been displaced over 15 times.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

a better world is possible dammit

Sodexo has denied T Hoxha her library job, 27 days into her hunger strike. The ask now is to call local UK embassies and pressure them to contact the UK ministry of justice, in addition to keeping up calls to the jail. Casey is on Day 11 without food. tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

This is Day 26 of T Hoxha’s hunger strike. Her demands have still not been met. There is another 24-hour phone blockade on Sodexo today. Lots of unfilled 15-min shifts here to sign up for: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Each time I think “How can the Momdani videos possibly get better?” and then they just do.

“And we will never forgive and never forget those who are standing on the wrong side of history.” —Greta Thunberg

Unfortunately T Hoxha’s last demand — written confirmation of her library job being returned to her — has still not been met. This is day 23 of her hunger strike. Casey Goonan has gone a week without food. We need people to up the pressure. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is horrible and puts many children at risk.

It’s not complicated. Free Palestine!

ICYMI ✨New poem in the August issue of Plume: “Death Machine" t.co/PHJIIyXz0P

Perfect

also those “public intellectual” columnists who have made maybe one sad tweet about how they hate what is happening in Gaza and maybe a retweet once a year and have called it a day. eternal shame for all of you who have shown yourselves clearly to be public intellectuals of empire

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

Yes, he wants to demolish Gaza City. That’s the plan. Just like he did to Rafah, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia and other towns in Khan Younis. The world is watching. The world is condemning. The world is sending more weapons.

In response to your requests for an online poetry course so people in different time zones can join, I’m teaching my very first online course this fall—at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social! Writing The Poems You Need To Write Sun Oct 5 & 12 10:30 AM-1:30 PM ET Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Only $3400 of the necessary $15K has been raised. We need every single academic who is still gainfully employed bc they have effectively risked nothing in their words or actions to stop the genocide to share and donate right now.

thank you for sharing - he is trying to build a shelter and feed his family. very difficult situation.

This is excellent news!

This from the GOP is sheer xenophobic idiocy that would hollow this country out culturally and economically into a husky shell

The doctor of one of my closest friends’ daughter has lost a lot of family members in the genocide. His nephew, who lost his house, has a gofundme. Please share and donate if you can. And please keep speaking up for Palestine. x.com/taraskurtu/s...

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Congrats to @susanfuchtman.bsky.social on the publication of her beautiful story!

This is the very first time I am teaching a poetry workshop ONLINE. 💻🖋️✨ Writing the Poems You Need to Write Sundays Oct 5 & 12 10:30 AM–1:30 PM (ET) Spaces are filling. Reserve your spot: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Global strike for Gaza! Every week!

ALL EYES ON GAZA CITY

SAVE PALESTINE

Explore poetic address; experimental form; writing what you need to; poetry, film & melodrama; and honing your poetic voice in these workshops w/ @lhiton.bsky.social, Anastacia-Renee, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all