These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza. lithub.com/these-are-the-…

Poet Mosab Abu Toha was taken away from his family by the Israeli Defense Forces at a checkpoint in Gaza.

Please join us in calling for the international community to demand the release of Mosab, and all hostages and prisoners in Gaza and Israel.

Did the New York Times just call the Nakba— the mass expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians— a migration?

On average, 134 children have been reported killed across the Gaza Strip every day since the war began.

stumbled upon this today and felt some joy. clinging to it. a starred review from Publishers Weekly...gratitude upon gratitude Alice James Books

⚡️OAKLAND THIS SATURDAY W/ SOME LEGENDS⚡️

Benjamin Gucciardi Zeina Hashem Beck زينة هاشم بك hua xi Brian Tierney

a bright spot for me this month—inclusion in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. thank you El Norte Recuerda for your generous curation, for including this contrapuntal from a series about mothering & matrilineage 🤍

“And yet, as in all her work, the clarity of self-knowledge. . . is cut through by the mystery of the surrounding world: Everything is changing, death is always near, and the answers are never certain or obvious.”aria aber

maybe her greatest lesson💛

yalereview.org/article/aria-a…

We ask our partner that, as the Government of Spain, we bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Here is my official statement 👇

new poem; it’s important to me

It’s here!! 🖤🖤🖤

I got home from work to this beauty on my doorstep—& rumor has it that the preorders are shipping from the press already, though it is not officially out until Nov. 1 (thx to the people who have sent me mgs!) preorder: lsupress.org or bookstores.

Zeeshan Jaanam speaking of birds (with Benjamin Gucciardi) :

I think, to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

—Sharon Olds

Look close! It's . . .

missourireview.com/six-morels-gro…

I'm especially indebted to Benjamin Gucciardi
for invaluable feedback on this piece as it evolved. Thank you.

The Missouri Review #WritingCommunity #morels #mushroom #duckhollow

“Another air raid alert
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”

--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died today from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment

Noah Warren writes, of me & Henri Cole in The Adroit Journal, the consideration one longs for: he inhabits the architecture, silence, and self itself in our work. What a pleasure. 💜 Copper Canyon Press Farrar,Straus&Giroux
theadroitjournal.org/2023/06/22/the…

$5k grants from PEN America to support literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers, apply by July 21, 2023

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Benjamin Gucciardi capturing so beautifully the power of group work and young people supporting each other. They ken. Something we experience with Children 1st #BairnsHoose Changemakers - the tenderness & knowing is a rich place to explore

open.spotify.com/episode/7L1mwr…