London Tonight ♥️🇵🇸

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better..

Congratulations to the boss, Kwame Dawes !!!

Ahhh!! My heart! Grateful to be a finalist for Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. Best of luck to all these finalists! 👏🏼🥳

“I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying.” - Ada Limón

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'Consider this pounding heart, yours too.
That should I hide my sorrow in my eyes,
it is the first place you would look.' - Tryphena Yeboah

Wow. 🤩

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So looking forward to this beauty---

I dream of seeing my mother and eating bread.

#VoicesFromPalestine

From Anne Carson’s Euripides:

When I was born
two tears were put
into my eyes
so that I could see
the enormity of my people’s pain.

—Humberto Akʼabal
▪︎ Guatemalan-Mayan poet ▪︎

To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home.

―Theodor W. Adorno

War degrades everyone. Not just the killed. The killer is degraded. Animals, the landscape, the climate. We do not have a soul that is separate from other souls. The world is my soul. When the world is degraded my self suffers. When I am degraded the world feels reverberations.

It doesn't matter if when love calls
I am dead.
I'll come.
I will always come
if ever
love calls.

—Alejandra Pizarnik

Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire!

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Israel is currently invading Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where thousands of patients, babies, children and women are taking refuge.

Only Israel can invade a hospital in the middle of the night, and the entire “free and civilized” world will cheer it on as “self-defense”.

At the NYC kids march for ceasefire now!

No. Sorry. They are not “collateral damage” they are human beings who happen to have been born there and live there and most of those human beings are stuck there. Have some compassion, they are Palestinians not buildings or roads or things, they are human beings and so are the

Timeless Charles Simic