I have changed the numbers on my watch...

—Brian Patten (British poet)

Well done, Pulitzer!

Interested in the history of Palestine? You should buy one (or all) of these books.

back again to say that may is both AAPI and mental health awareness month, and if you're looking for a book that meets both of those criteria, I have the thing for you:
bookshop.org/p/books/a-fish…

Grateful to The Offing for publishing these poems I withdrew from a forthcoming ghazal anthology that originally didn't want to publish too many poems about Palestine and the genocide.

theoffingmag.com/poetry/palesti…

“In order to think, speak, write, work, exist in another way, we felt we had nothing to lose by trying everything.”
—Annie Ernaux tr. by Alison L. Strayer

So easy / and beautifully lit.

Vievee Francis

Thanks to Michael Mackin O'Mara and the SoFloPoJo editorial team. It's an honour to be in this issue with (among many other excellent poets) Daniel Brennan @aol.com and Chelsea Dingman.

“Blessing the Baby” by Diannely Antigua

Oh this poem, Diannely, oh this poem

Whole timeline like this. Consider that the violence of empire on its own youth, its students and faculty, while horrible and obscene, is comparatively gentle to the catastrophe it continues to unleash on Palestine.

RIP to Paul Auster, whose translations have meant the world to me. Here are two snippets from Joseph Joubert in Auster’s translation

I’m obsessed with today’s poem by Roger Reeves, I.M. David Ferry. poets.org/poem-a-day

'I was once that giddy. I believed
in drinks with a lover, the work
of my hands, the afterlife.'

Susan L. Leary up at Sweet Literary ❤️

sweetlit.org/susan-l-leary-…

Pub Day for my book of food essays, BITE BY BITE! It’s been a delicious & difficult time but I hope it gives you nourishment. Here’s where I’ll be this spring. I’m honored to sit with so many heroes. It becomes our nourishing bc we take care of each other. Come, sit next to me.

from “Poems to Czechoslovakia”
by Marina Tsvetaeva

[translated by Ilya Kaminsky & Jean Valentine]

“The smaller the light to write to becomes, the more / I have to say to you.” 💙

Lucie Brock-Broido, STAY, ILLUSION

Suji Kwock Kim

ON BEING WARLIKE ---

Folks, I've spent this whole year trying to swing so hard in my poetry criticism-- and here's my biggest swing, an essay on the poetry of Alice Notley -- and maybe my own--

“The healing is regularly postponed in the ruins of nostalgia.”

—Donna Stonecipher

The poet Hosam Maarouf is raising funds for his family to evacuate Gaza. I learned about Hosam and his work from Fady Joudah, who translated this poem in The Baffler. Here are links to read and donate if you're able--

thebaffler.com/from-palestine…

gofundme.com/f/donate-to-he…