Finally caught up on this beautiful, moving conversation. I was in tears for most of it. Highly recommend 🖤

My book, HERE IS A FIGURE: GROUNDING LITERARY FORM, is coming out with Northwestern University Press!! It’s about all the different people lying around & lying on the ground in contemporary literature, what they’re figuring & what they ask of us. nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/…

For the evening crowd…

This is a really incredible episode. I'm still in the middle of it, but it's really touched and inspired me. A really important conversation for Poetry right now. Listen.

#FreePalestine

Pull Yourself Together

O! How alone we are!
All the others have won their wars
and you were left in your mud,
barren.

Darwish, don’t you know?
No poetry will return to the lonely
what was lost, what was
stolen.

— by Hiba Abu Nada translated by Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين

This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

Anahid Nersessian on the campus protests lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Tonight was the night I read “this be the verse” to my child, seemed to go fine

From Gaza's last maternity and neonatal hospital, in Rafah: 'At the moment there are 45 babies between the neonatal intensive care unit and the special care intensive care unit. Without a doubt, if the Israeli army occupies this space, every single one of those babies will die.'

This baba ❤️❤️❤️

I feel like a lot of you didn't see

the man crushed by the tank
the girl shredded in half
the multiple people carrying their family in bags
the doctor who had to amputate his daughter's leg
the bodies left out to rot

cuz ur talking about property

These students are amazing

They didn’t rename the hall after a combatant, or an anti-Zionist, or an anti-Israeli…. They named it after the five year old who died alone and terrified, because Israel killed her family and the paramedics trying to reach her. Powerful witness and beautiful resistance