Just over a week until Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة’s book launch for Something about Living at Open Books on 4/20!

Event info: …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/pages/4-20-boo…

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“Begin: a memory from before you can remember”

-Sara Daniele Rivera, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/river…

“Forgive me for shining this light / into your graveyard of an eye”

-Shō Yamagushiku, Shima (Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/yamag…

seattle, come to Open Books on april 26 to see me read with the one and only س in celebration of her book I Could Die Today and Live Again (@GameOverBooks)! it’ll be really cute and fun! …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/pages/4-26-rea…

“I don’t want you to fall apart I love you / what shall we do”

-Alice Notley, Being Reflected Upon (Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/notle…

There is a fantastic series curated by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة through Open Books for this explicit purpose!

“Breath entering, leaving the leaf,”

-Jean Valentine, Light Me Down: New & Collected Poems (Alice James Books) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/valen…

⬇️⬇️⬇️ 'The literary establishment’s selective decisions about when to be outraged is revealing and disappointing, but not surprising to any Palestinian, any writer of color, or anyone who has been paying attention.'

Where are the well-resourced literary orgs who can step in with funds to support transferring these books?? Why is Ingram making this rushed choice to destroy so much?? Is there really no other option?? This terrible situation rests on a lot more than SPD’s terrible rot & mess.

Small Press Distribution was the primary way to access the remaining inventory of books published by legendary now-defunct presses like Burning Deck, Eidolon, Lost Roads, O Books, Post-Apollo, Tuumba United Artists. What becomes of these books now?

Added a new work to our list of free Palestinian zines and books:
akaneems.itch.io/falestiniyah01

Longer list here: publishersforpalestine.org/2024/01/10/16-…

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, a new anthology edited & introduced by Ada Limón 🌿🐎✨ …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/limon…

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TONIGHT!

Seattle folk:

Tonight’s the night! Join us for this wonderful reading! Starts at 7pm ✨

Aww, maybe they should have been on the right side of history. May the damage be out of control, may the public continue in its rebuke.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Come support these fabulous poets!

“That blank canvas behind our closed eyelids / Where dreams save us, and we all become gods.”

-Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Silver (Farrar,Straus&Giroux) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/phill…