Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha currently resides in Cairo with his family, he says returning to Gaza is a matter of when, not if.

“Gaza is my home. And even if our house continued to be a heap of rubble, I would—with so much love—be living there.”
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Proud of my brother Fady Joudah at the people’s graduation for Columbia and Barnard today. And we are both most proud of all the incredible students. ❤️

Reading from “Dedication”….

And of flowers we know only the anemones.

- Mahmoud Darwish, “Mural” (2000) as translated by Fady Joudah

Please read this incredible short poem from Susan L. Leary’s forthcoming collection Dressing The Bear (which you’ll want to preorder now!)

Poetry PSA: Bull City Press makes gorgeous chapbooks + they’re open for submissions!

Some news from po-biz land.

A Brief History of Accidental Inventions is coming Fall ‘26 from TRP: The University Press of SHSU .

Thanks J. Bruce Fuller for believing in this weirdo.

Today I feel on my tongue the bitterness / of being. I feel the anguish enter / through my feet. The day grows thin / as a thread. Already the light is / sticky porridge…

Excited to publish a bummer of a poem by Marigloria Palma in this week’s The New York Review of Books: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

“poetry isn’t revolution but a way of knowing why it must come” — adrienne rich

Natalie Loveless, the associate dean of equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of Alberta, has resigned from that position over the violent sweep by police of a peaceful anti-genocide protest in the U of A quad.

Our summer book sale is here! All titles UGA Press titles are 50% off at ugapress.org. Use promo code 08SALE from now until June 21. #tbr #ReadUP #reading #books #BookTwitter #SummerReading

Honored to have 2 poems in the current issue of Nimrod Journal alongside so many writers I admire (@ChelsDingman!)✨w gratitude also to sarah ann winn @poetcamp.bsky.social for feedback on “Imagine a Wing” (link in bio) #poetry #poetry lovers #writingcommunity

Oh my goodness! My little book, DRESSING THE BEAR, was reviewed in Publishers Weekly! What an absolute dream! Thanks to Trio House Press for uplifting your authors left and right! I am so lucky! Friends, check out the review if you can!!! 💙🙏⬇️

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Nakba and her sisters

Happy pub day to GOOD MONSTER by DIANNELY ANTIGUA (Diannely Antigua)! At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living: bit.ly/3TjGPDC

Happy Pub Day to El Norte Recuerda!! I am constantly recommending her essays to people and now we get a whole book of them 🥹🥹

My new poem 'Playlist,' on grief and wonderment and the semi-oracular lure of music in a time of both, is Poem of the Week in the The Yale Review today. This poem is in CENTRO, a collection forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2026. 💫

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Jean Valentine

“Writing about trauma does nothing if not present countless black holes…My students were telling me their stories, carrying the weight of what they read on top of their own traumas. They were furious. But > 1/ lithub.com/the-impossible…

Alice Munro

When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day by Lehua M. Taitano

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