thanks Kundiman and Bookshop.org US for highlighting THEOPHANIES among legends for AAPI heritage month! so special to see my book among its teachers and friends and influences 💫

all books 15% off here: bookshop.org/lists/books-to…?

The 2024 Best Spiritual Literature Awards are open for submissions! Judged by Sarah Ghazal Ali (poetry), Susanne Paola Antonetta (nonfiction), & Amit Majmudar (fiction). Each winner receives $500 & publication in Best Spiritual Literature. bit.ly/3y33yJu

See you soon San Francisco! Sarah Ghazal Ali Shelley Wong Green Apple Books

Have been saying over and over again, every single week of this genocide, these daily massacres, has been a deliberate choice by Israel—there has always been an offer to exchange hostages, and it has been consistently rejected.

Najwan Darwish

Celebrate National Poetry Month with us by checking out these stunning collections. 📚✨

🖤 'The Black Unicorn' by Audre Lorde
🌾 'Daywork' by Jessica Fisher
🌌 'Theophanies' by Sarah Ghazal Ali

ty Karla J. Strand, DPhil, MLIS for including THEOPHANIES (@caesarah_), ORDERS OF SERVICE (@WillieKinardIII), & I DON'T WANT TO BE UNDERSTOOD (@sadqueer4life) on this 'Best Poetry of ’23-’24' reading list for Ms. Magazine 🤩msmagazine.com/2024/04/23/bes…

I have an essay on Arab Apocalypse & Dictee in Poetry Northwest 💐 one of the harder pieces to write / won't be the last time I attempt to work through these texts in conversation poetrynw.org/from-witness-f…

Echoing what every Palestinian has been saying: don't get distracted. Gaza is the heart of our movement. As Diaa reminds us, every catastrophic image from Gaza contains 'a complete biography'

Please sit with this piece by ضياء ، غزّة translated by Nour for Mizna

As writers and organizations with public platforms, what we choose to spotlight (and what we choose to ignore) matters. If you’ve spilled more ink on literary world decorum than on condemning mass slaughter, you’re not the adult in the room, you’re a tool (of empire 😉).

meri pehli kitaab Theophanies iss mahiney sale per hai. agar aapne abhi tak nahin kharida, aaj faida uthaye 🤍

(my book is on sale this month! buy it if you havent yet! whether you speak urdu or not! xo!)

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if you can, please support poet Martins Deep is crowdfunding! who is fundraising to make it to his MFA program this fall 🤍

College students are getting arrested for protesting genocide and meanwhile nearly 300 bodies are discovered in a mass grave at a hospital in Gaza amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/22…

I’ll admit I put Theophanies in my cart because of the front cover

& then I saw that Ocean Vuong blurbed it

& then I dug into Ali’s Sarai poems & ghazals, & saw that Ali is gracing us with deeply spiritual personal artful work

So so good 🥹🤯👊🏽

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Donating the $75K prize money to PCRF wasn’t even PEN America’s decision btw