first poem from Fady Joudah's ALIGHT

Langston Hughes attended Columbia. He was denied a dorm room because he was black. From his poem, Kids Who Die:

This is for the kids who die,
Black and white,
For kids will die certainly.
The old and rich will live on awhile,
As always,
Eating blood and gold,
Letting kids die

No to 'a lousy peace;' Yes to all the kids' lives

Another genocide bouquet from CNN; so that you and it are not complicit; some actually decapitated bodies; many executions; mass grave; and many more still missing; even numbers are holier for some than others; the unholy refuse to be numbers.

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NYPD is arresting peaceful protesters at NYU campus (among them faculty member professor Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون)

I repost this poem because of 'the genocide bouqet' that remains in effect, confuses itself for solidarity or reduces genocide to a social justice reflex, a ceiling for what talking about genocide (of Palestinians) in America is

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On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

Who burns books? They who do repeat in time and thik they are better than those who burnt books before them.

There's a food truck next to my house that makes the best Infitata there is. And it is moderate in nature.

“You don’t yet know that I have endured your salvation so long. I cannot afford it anymore! Not another moment of your salvation.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihan5Y…

How many times can you say Palestinian in Arabic against Mccarthysim (putting it kindly)? As many times as you have red blood cells!

Remember these days America, and remember why, what for, and who held the light

On Mom'ss Bday and the judges' citation ends with: 'And one with oness I be: from the river the sea.'

What I appreciate, besides this news being released on my mother's birthday, is the judge's citation: 'And one with oness I be: from the river the sea.'

Diane Seuss Gregory Pardlo Natalie Diaz

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On my Mom's birthday, happy birthday Yamma, this is for you

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Some news I share in honour of the real warriors across campuses and all beautiful Palestine Palestinians

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I rarely feel that do enough justice to poets' work, and that's especially the case with Fady Joudah's unforgettable [...] (@Milkweed_Books). I'll be thinking about this collection for a long time & I am so grateful to my editor فاروق and Chicago Review of Books for their care.

The work in Fady Joudah's […] (Milkweed Editions) succeeds as remarkable poetry, and it also tasks readers to remember what ground it arises from: shattered, sorrowful, and sacred.

reviewed by mandana

chireviewofbooks.com/2024/04/17/the…

'10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.

This devastating differentiated impact continues to make the war on Gaza also a war on women.'
-UN Women

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McCarthyism is real. I’ve been relieved of teaching responsibilities. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.