'A future where all people across the region live in safety and lasting peace must start with the U.S. government ending Israeli impunity and instead backing the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.' Strong statement from Jewish Voice for Peace 🧵👇

My expectations for witnessing a total eclipse were entirely shaped by Bonnie Tyler & Annie Dillard & those expectations were met & exceeded.

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During AWP 2024, I gave a talk on documentary poetry on a panel with Paisley Rekdal, Michael Leong, Joe Harrington, and Tara Ballard. The talk really became something of a poem. This is it: Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide.

Cleveland is in the path of totality for the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN — finally a rare global event! — & New York City has to go & one-up it with an EARTHQUAKE. Not cool, NY, not cool.

I AM FINE

As a Jew deeply involved in the ceasefire movement in Cleveland, I’m outraged by Mayor Justin M. Bibb’s rejection of the resolution & Jewish Cleveland calling a bunch of peace organizers bullies & both falsely claiming that Israel’s offers were sincere or provided a true path to peace.

'In his life
he neither wrote nor read.
In his life he
didn’t cut down a single tree,
didn’t slit the throat
of a single calf.'
—Taha Muhammad Ali,
translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi & Gabriel Levin

If you are concerned & angry about the indiscriminate killing of 6 aid workers by Israel — you should be. Now, multiply that anger & concern 5,500 times.

every clothesline, every hot skirt, every joyful dress, every torn trousers, every days-spun sweater, every button, every nail, every song, every ballad, every mirror, every peg, every bench, every shelf, every dream lithub.com/from-the-river…

Poetry is a political action undertaken for the sake of information, the faith, the exorcism, and the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes possible. Poetry means taking control of the language of your life. —June Jordan

For Land Day, a poem by Rashid Hussein, translated c. 2011 by Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون. Until liberation— arablit.org/2011/03/30/pal…

A poem I return to constantly, especially on Land Day. FREE PALESTINE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. jewishcurrents.org/the-workers-lo…

'To our land,
and it is the one near the word of god,
a ceiling of clouds'
—Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah

It is an honor & an inspiration to be part of the movement in Cleveland calling for a ceasefire in Gaza & Palestinian liberation. The power & steadfastness in Cleveland is stunning & unstoppable.

We did it!

#Cleveland , OH passed a ceasefire resolution tonight. #Columbus , OH passed a ceasefire resolution tonight. This may feel small after 6 months of genocide but it means something after 17 weeks organizing and explaining that our communities need to be heard, and that the pain of…

Cleveland! Join us on March 30th at 2 pm at Edgewater Upper Pavilion for a march for Land Day! We'll be gathering together with Palestinians, Jews, allies & all people of conscience to march in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Jewish Voice for Peace Palestinian Youth Movement Party for Socialism and Liberation US Palestinian Community Network