“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza. You've paid and you will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Palesitne, in the Gaza Strip.” youtu.be/WgCb4FlKGEo

Your intimidation is thin air to us.

Heartbroken beyond words. Now, Israel has killed Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, Al-Shaimaa, her husband, and newborn. No words can convey this endless loss and pain. For days now I stood on stages saying "they are killing our poets, but they can't kill their words"

proud to announce i am now a patron of Huddersfield Literature Festival, alongside Lemn Sissy and Sir Patrick Stewart. for my inaugural event, we went rogue from what was advertised. Kareem and i used our billing to put on a show of poetry and oud for the global intifada.

Don’t usually share what I’m reading but stumbled on this by the late Sean Bonney (SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999, 2005) in Freedom Press and think we need his work now more than ever. #legend

“No somos unos simplones, solo estamos explotados.” ―Sergio Chesán en La literatura no es lugar para pobres (Piedra Papel Libros)

Anyone know any classic books by people from wealthy backgrounds with good connections and plenty of time to kill? Really struggling here.

This Writer Rallying for Liberation Knows War All Too Well brokeassstuart.com/2023/11/27/san… Paolo Bicchieri on Jess Semaan for (((BrokeAssStuart)))

No hay más que un millón de herreros forjando cadenas para los niños que han de venir … No hay más que un gentío de lamentos que se abren las ropas en espera de las balas. ―#Lorca

We are looking for an authenticity or sensitivity reader for a historical fiction novel that centers Navajo people. It is a paid opportunity. Please DM for more details or email [email protected]

It’s been 24 hours since Save the Children reported 20,000+ children are missing in Gaza and I can’t find news about it in any major Western outlet. 20,000 children under rubble, maimed beyond recognition, in mass graves, detained or separated from their family isn’t newsworthy.

Cheers William Taylor Jr., Zeitgeist Press, and UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and Julien Poirier for making Jack Micheline’s work available to new readers (like me)

“Give me a little wine, my throat’s dried out with wine.” ―#Steinbeck, East of Eden

Morning. We're pleased to say that the new HU submission call is now open. Been a while! Details can be found here: humag.co/news/3195/subm… Poetry, prose & in particular critical writing/suggestions for interviews required! Verbal PAGE & STAGE NI Poetry Ireland Poetry NI+

"Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two cheeks of the same backside." 🍑 Beautiful. Don't know how I missed this. youtube.com/watch?v=WgCb4F… The Guardian #UKElections2024 #GeorgeGalloway #KeirStarmer #RishiSunk

Hello friends, our August issue is now live! We hope that you'll find some comfort, identification, and inspiration here in these pages. Much gratitude to our contributors for sharing these stories, poems, and visions with us, and the world. heroinchic.weebly.com/issues.html

the secret to endurance is this: don’t reflect without a decade ‘tween what you couldn’t and had to ―Jim Trainer

“What happens only once does not stay in words.” —Czesław Miłosz

Artwork and photography from our latest issue by (left to right) Mirjana M., Alex Stolis, Betsy Selvam, and Jasper Glen. bit.ly/3WXSx8g

“but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can’t touch it.” —Mary Oliver