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Cortney Lamar Charleston

@bardsbesidebars

Author: TELEPATHOLOGIES (@SaturnaliaBooks, 2017) + DOPPELGANGBANGER (@haymarketbooks, 2021) • @The_Rumpus Poetry Editor • @AliceJamesBooks Ed. Board (on leave)

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Fatha Heinz Ward 🇨🇻🇺🇸(@diasporter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How many times do we have to see this happen to understand that it’s genocide. Destroying archives, killing writers and artists, it’s all an attempt to not only evade documentation, but to erase any legacy of the people or their struggle.

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Also, I was recently able to giveaway Mosab Abu Toha's THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR as part of this project. I would be thrilled to see more requests for work from Palestinian poets come through.

Also, I was recently able to giveaway Mosab Abu Toha's THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR as part of this project. I would be thrilled to see more requests for work from Palestinian poets come through.
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Entries for the November 2023 Lights & Shadows Poetry Book Giveaway are open until Thursday. Here's a chance to win a book for you and a reading buddy for free! I'd love to see requests for works from Palestinian poets come through. Rules at the link:
cortneylamarcharleston.com/lights-shadows…

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Today, I'm thankful for all who stand against genocide, ethnic cleansing and the violent articulation of empire.

I'm thankful for my ancestors who survived so that I can be here now.

I'm thankful that, because men made this world, we have the ability to make it anew. Better.

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Camonghne Felix(@CAMONGHNE) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mosab’s life is no more valuable than any other Palestinian life but the poets and educators and students are the fruit of each generation and if you want to eliminate a people you destroy their intellectual infrastructure so they cannot record history.

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Mosab Abu Toha, an award-winning poet and essayist, has committed no crime, but nonetheless has been seized by the IDF and separated from his family while fleeing the bombardment of northern Gaza. He must be released immediately. Praying that it's so.

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People live tweeting getting bombed and we suppose to act normal and not talk about it we live in a very unserious world

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The Lights & Shadows Poetry Book Giveaway for November is open for requests through the end of the month. Now would be a great time for you and a buddy to seek out work from Palestinian poets. Last month's winning selections and entry details are below.
cortneylamarcharleston.com/lights-shadows…

The Lights & Shadows Poetry Book Giveaway for November is open for requests through the end of the month. Now would be a great time for you and a buddy to seek out work from Palestinian poets. Last month's winning selections and entry details are below. cortneylamarcharleston.com/lights-shadows…
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My poem written after Jordan Neely's murder on the NYC subway quietly slid into the world this week. I hesitated to share it as I wish no distraction from ending the siege of Gaza, and yet the struggles of Black Americans and Palestinians very much rhyme.
guernicamag.com/its-important-…

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If you give this even a second of thought, you realize this is nothing dressed up as something. I loathe what is being done to language because it makes the slaughter of innocent Palestinian people possible and maintains it. This is how you terrorize a people before killing them.

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Eman Abdelhadi(@emanabdelhadi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People in Gaza want a ceasefire and are not getting our humanitarian relief. If your capacity right now is only for donating, I suggest one of the following: 🧵

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Someone once said, 'you can't fool all of the people all of the time' and they were right about that. In this moment, more people are probably standing witness than have before, and their eyes can't unsee what they've seen. It doesn't matter what voiceover you give to it.

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