this is a brigit pegeen kelly poem

O by Zeina Hashem Beck زينة هاشم بك Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚

#poetry

Israeli forces just murdered my only brother in front of my eyes.
أخويا شهيد.

To be amongst your own. To not be asked whether you condemn. To feel a visceral connection to the land, to its resistance in its many forms. Simmering rage. To not be called “emotional” but be understood, with just a look. To feel the beginning of the end of the Zionist entity.

The makeshift “balloons” to try and give them a little comfort amid unimaginable horror. The way they clutch on to them even though catatonic with grief and fear

Beirut

'Gaza is also itself and more. It is Hiroshima, Srebrenica, Kigali, and other names before it and, sadly, yet to come. English can play peekaboo with itself about Palestine. But it will eventually accept that covering its eyes does not mean Gaza and Palestine will go away.'

How

Aid dropped to Gazans in the north.
They died hungry. They tried.

The Flour Massacre:

Starved, displaced, traumatised, innocent civilians queuing for basic provisions to feed their families. Butchered by the Israeli killing machine. Documented for the world to see.

One of the gravest war crimes in modern history. Still our gov is complicit.

my interview The Yale Review w aria aber about [...] my new book/poetry collection written during the genocide of #Gaza #FreePalestine
yalereview.org/article/fady-j…

This is an abjection of the entire world

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May the world be haunted by this image forever

Not just full view. The full complicity of every state that cut funding to UNRWA in the midst of genocide.

I don’t know what to say anymore.

I can't believe this book will be out in 5 months.

On March 14, poet Hala Alyan, Sarah Aziza سارة عزيزة (she/her), Zeina Hashem Beck زينة هاشم بك, Zaina Arafat, Mahogany L. Browne and Sara Deniz Akant will read at Brooklyn Public Library in celebration of Alyan's new poetry collection The Moon That Turns You Back. RSVP here: bklynlib.org/49chuRc