Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...

Featured poets include @chenchenwrites.bsky.social , @cathylinhche.bsky.social , Mahogany L. Browne, Brittany Rogers, @edgarkunz.bsky.social , Hala Alyan, Cornelius Eady, @taraskurtu.bsky.social , @deesoulpoetry.com , Elisabet Velasquez, Pamela Sneed, @joankwonglass.bsky.social & more!

Outdoor reading in Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, if you’re in the area. Thursday at 6:30 with @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and me. Bring a blanket!!

I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

a wonderful evening of poetry at the Highland Bowl with readings by @kathryncowles.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social -a huge thanks to Writers & Books for hosting and @robinweeg.bsky.social for hanging

(Awkwardly, because I've never posted on here before) I wrote a piece about @cathylinhche.bsky.social's stunning new collection of poems, Becoming Ghost, for Poetry Northwest. Check it out here: www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...

So my friend @cathylinhche.bsky.social won a *ahem* Sundance Film Award Come see her film at SIFF or at Elliot Bay Books this Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM! I will read a lil something to celebrate her, and her new book, too!

Artist @cathylinhche.bsky.social's parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell? Read the final story in our special series, American War: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Looking forward to reading "Becoming Ghost." And seeing Cathy Linh Che's award-winning short film "We Were the Scenery." Congratulations, Cathy! @cathylinhche.bsky.social #poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

From @cathylinhche.bsky.social: Her parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell?

A great essay on Cathy’s new book, Becoming Ghost! www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t... @cathylinhche.bsky.social

Just received my copy of Becoming Ghost by @cathylinhche.bsky.social ! So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️

It won! I'm so proud of my sis @cathylinhche.bsky.social

Nice poster! I do love the look and grain of film. Can't believe I'm on the sundance website ...

Here is the film poster for WE WERE THE SCENERY designed by @jessxsnow Featuring Super 8 shot in the Philippines traveling from my parents’ refugee camp to where they were extras in Apocalypse Now + a photo of my parents in VN. Tickets: festival.sundance.org

Quick #NYE shout-out: Shout-out to @cathylinhche.bsky.social for We We’re Scenery.

I am very excited to watch this documentary & also for the world to learn about the brilliant writer Cathy Linh Che. There is so much more I have to say about the subjects, the writer, the deserved attention coming this way, but for now, I’ll just say, I’m very very happy this story is being told

My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now, and my sister made a film about it. It's beautiful... the cinematography is so beautiful. I'm so proud of her!

I'm thrilled to announce that our short documentary film 𝘞𝘌 𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘌𝘙𝘠 is officially premiering at the 2025 #Sundance Film Festival! 📷📷 Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.

Staff at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital have called for international protection after Israeli forces destroyed its power generators and snipers targeted staff in the ICU. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/1kjium

Just sharing this news over here: I'm going to be the new secretary of Periplus, a volunteer mentorship collective serving early-career writers of color. Periplus has been a steady source of joy to me since I became a mentor in 2021 & I'm happy to be able to help out more as we head into Year 5.

Love me some Haymarket Books!

295,000 journalists from 44 countries will stop posting content on X. We are making change and the world has spoken. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

I started @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social as a blog over 15 years ago, to publish Vietnamese diasporic writers. It continues w/@ericnguyenisok.bsky.social. Some writers we published now have their own books. I learned how to write satire via my editorials. Make your own platform if none exists.

Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

Together 😻 Look 👀 Where we are now.! 90% Done 10% Left If you can't donate, Just repost 🐈‍⬛️ Just repost 🐈 Just repost 🐈‍⬛️ ⛔️ Call me🤙via a VIDEO CALL to make sure I'm a real mother suffering inside Gaza 🇵🇸⬇️💔 t.me/Mona_hijazy 🔵❄️ To Donate GFM gofund.me/4afe7094 🅿️❄️ or PayPal www.paypal.me/Hijazi562

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

For Mizna, I reflect on this moment of honoring Palestinians at the National Book Awards @nationalbook.bsky.social & sit more deeply with @lenakt.bsky.social & Fady Joudah's earth-shattering books. An honor to publish both finalist readings, including Fady's new poem 🍉🇵🇸 mizna.org/mizna-online...

I have three signed copies of Arrow available at this year’s Brew and Forge book fair, along with tons of other incredible books. All proceeds benefit Addameer, a Palestinian civil institution that supports Palestinian political prisoners. www.brewandforge.com/bookfair

Virtual event today at 2pm ET on the wars against Palestine and Lebanon. Register here: linktr.ee/HGSUBDS

The fight to defeat HR 9495 isn't over yet. Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on this dangerous bill, which gives the admin unilateral power to strip nonprofits (e.g. news outlets, universities) of their status. Here's the ACLU statement on its dangers: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Tonight! Sign up by 4 pm ET to join! Author @cathylinhche.bsky.social joins our virtual writing room for her workshop "A Conversation with What Haunts You," a session in which we will invite what is haunting us into conversation with us on the page. https://bit.ly/cbaw-strathmore

BREAKING — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during Israel's assault on Gaza.

🔴 Gaza’s Civil Defence has released a statement detailing the extensive damages and losses it has suffered in Israeli attacks: 🔺87 personnel killed 🔺304 staff injured 🔺21 detained LIVE Updates ⤵️

Three signed and personalized copies of An Asian American A to Z: A Children Guide to Our History are available at Brew and Forge. All proceeds go toward Addameer. www.brewandforge.com/product-page...

“Hope is no substitute for strategy.” ––Percival Everett, when giving his acceptance speech for winning the @nationalbook.bsky.social award 📚💙

also if you order one of my books, I'll include a cute lil poem print for you! (not a poem by me, lol. I mean a GOOD poem, by an actual poet.)

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD @lenakt.bsky.social WON THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 5 MINUTES STRAIGHT

Love is a story we never tire of telling… Love lives in many rooms. ––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living

Congrats to dear @lenakt.bsky.social for winning the National Book Award in Poetry! Weeping, grateful.

Shifa Saltagi Safadi, winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, for her book Kareem Between, ends her speech with Free Palestine! I’m weeping 😭

lawmakers joined Bernie Sanders' effort to block arms sales to Israel, but the vast majority of the Senate voted against the measure. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/sena...

Three signed and personalized copies of An Asian American A to Z: A Children Guide to Our History are available at Brew and Forge. All proceeds go toward Addameer. www.brewandforge.com/product-page...

161 authors have donated over 300 books to this book fair! Go check it out and maybe knock out some of your holiday gift shopping while supporting Addameer? brewandforge.com

Imagine losing 50 to 100 members of your community every day for over a year. How can one grasp the scale of killing and loss of life in Gaza? Beyond the murdered are the injured, missing, amputated, disabled, elderly, children, and pregnant—imagine the unimaginable suffering they endure daily.

The richest 10% of households hold 62% of the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 5.7%.

More than 200 children have been killed in Lebanon since Israel launched a military campaign focused on the country two months ago, says UNICEF ⤵️ aje.io/63g8cg