Please read/sign this petition calling for CUNY to reinstate adjuncts who have been fired for speaking out against genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. One of them is my friend, the brilliant writer, translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: t.ly/GvlF7 CUNY4Palestine

Tonight City Lights Books in San Francisco, in person and on zoom, come celebrate the launch of the new issue of Alta Journal and the publication of RANGIKURA, the new poems by Tayi Tibble at 7pm (10pm EST). ❤️❤️

Tomorrow night in Los Angeles! This will be a fantastic reading ❤️

Jon Stewart checks in on the war in Gaza and examines how America's 'values' stack up against its support of Israel

Spoke to Natasha Frost for The NYT 🍎
nytimes.com/2024/04/08/boo…

Wishing a very happy pub day to:

🍹 RANGIKURA by Tayi Tibble

🌆 THE LIMITS by Nell Freudenberger

🥖 MY LIFE IN RECIPES by Joan Nathan

Again, the difference in framing is intentional.

Compare a 2022 NYT headline about Russia starving Ukrainians to two recent headlines about Israel starving Palestinians in Gaza.

Woah Donna Shalala.

“Support the steadfastness of Gaza” (1970) designed by Ghassan Kanafani who would’ve turned 88 today had he not been assassinated — with his niece, Lamees — by the Mossad in Beirut in 1972

The best ever essay on an eclipse is this incredible piece by Annie Dillard

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

USA! I’m going on tour for the US edition of RANGIKURA 🥵🔥 out 9/4 with Knopf

André Dao reviews Nam Le's '36 Ways to Read a Vietnamese Poem':

'Just look at his name, his face – then perhaps it also seems obvious to you that I should be reviewing this book. Just look at my name and my face. I initially declined this commission.' satpa.pe/wJ37Gkt

This was five months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 10,150 kids since.

Not with a bang but a whimper. The capture of the Republican party is complete

We told you on day 6 after 6,000 bombs and 1,900 Palestinians had been killed. This wasnt about Hamas or retrieval of hostages, Israel’s campaign aimed to depopulate Gaza by genocidal force. 6 months later, the The Wall Street Journal agrees:

apple.news/ACN8liPRNSxmil…

#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba

This took a while to put together and, because I’m in Leb + from the South, I wasn’t sure if it mattered to say what I felt was already being said everywhere. When you’re this close to something, it can feel like it’s common knowledge.

It’s not though.

aanab.news/p/israels-ecoc…

The worst Prime Minister of Britain since Anthony Eden, the man whose long series of lies & lazy misjudgements has done more damage to this country than anyone else in modern history, rides to the support of his Israeli counterpart, the equally catastrophic Benjamin Netanyahu.…

Why does April's @calbookclub author, Jessica Hagedorn, write?

'Blood, Exile, Longing, Obstinate Memory.' altaonline.com/california-boo…

Please consider donating to our fundraiser for Afghanistan! This is our fourth year in a row and Alhamdullilah the generosity of friends and strangers clothed and fed hundreds of needy Afghan families. I'll be posting pics from our past fundraisers too. gofund.me/23670102

Today, on behalf of three Palestinians in Rafah, we - a Berlin-based collective of lawyers - filed an urgent legal application against the German government to halt the export of war weapons to Israel. This legal action was taken in collaboration w/ Forensic Architecture & European Legal Support Center (ELSC)