Week two of National Poetry Month 2024 is over! Read all of the poems we shared this week, with work by Anthony Cody, Siwar Masannat, KB Brookins, chrysanthemum 🌼, and Suzi F Garcia. And keep your eyes peeled for next week's Friday NPM roundup.

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I don't want to hear a word of opposition to academic boycott ever again.

From TikTok bans to arrests of anti-genocide student protestors at Columbia to legislation against childhood transition sweeping the south, the U.S. state apparatus has essentially declared an internal war on youth culture, and views its annihilation as a complete necessity.

'Hillary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today'

She literally worked with DeSantis' picks to ban trans care in Florida and disregarded massive amounts of research on trans care.

Another day, another anti-trans article in the New York Times.

The Rumpus brings you another new poem today for National Poetry Month! This time, we have a poem from chrysanthemum 🌼 that mesmerizes the way only poetry can. Check out Chrysanthemum's 'Biological Woman' at the link. Enjoy and share!
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To shield Israel from criticism and accountability, especially as the Israeli project approaches its final stages, both state and non-state supporters of Israel in the West will target your freedom of speech, violate your rights, and sanction and impoverish people. Things are

I have come into possession of an email sent by Patrick Hunter of the Catholic Medical Assn to the Florida BoM, where he says Dr. Cass and her team met to share info with the Florida BoM.

Patrick Hunter was handpicked by DeSantis to ban care, and met with Cass to do so.

Minouche, this is going to be your legacy. That you used NYPD to clear students that were in your care. That you used your voice to dismiss them. Think about how 1968 is remembered. You have cemented your name in history as oppressor; as the person who released the dogs. Shame.

“A life of idle, with money

doing the work. A life beholden,
but bestowed. To make reformists of us all,

even the fascists.
Especially

of the fascists.”

— Solmaz Sharif, “Patronage”

ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS BEGUN ARRESTING THE STUDENTS IN THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT. SHAME ON COLUMBIA AND MINOUCHE SHAFIK. HISTORY WILL REMEMBER YOU ON THE SIDE OF GENOCIDE!!!!

Palestine isn't something that just happens 'over there'--

This genocide is manufactured, paid for, & fueled by the US war machine and cultural projects. This is an American genocide.

And what happens 'over there' is intimately tied to the fate of freedom struggles 'over here.'

Can you match or raise my €50?

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Thrilled to say I have a poem in this week’s @chicago_reader out on newsstands and in mailboxes across Chicago today. This is an ekphrastic poem based on the timeless painting Blue Monday by the prolific Chicago artist Annie Lee.

Sorry to everyone who married, had a kid, chose a career, assumed they had agency over any aspect of their life before 25: The Telegraph and Dr Cass say '“life-changing” decisions must be properly considered in adulthood, noting that brain maturation continues into the mid-20s'

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There is no need to engage with the false accusations. Don’t take the bait. It’s only poor judgement—how often do you see them addressing accusations of anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia? Please focus. Focus. Don’t take the bait. Focus. We are dying. Focus.