Hunger lives and breathes... / It shivers and shakes... / slithers onward. It crawls on...

He didn't even need to change the beat--

“We should be kind / while there is still time.”

Today I helped dedicate the Refaat Alareer Memorial Library at the Gaza solidarity encampment, Colorado College. I talked about Refaat, that Islamic U, where he taught, was destroyed. I read 'If I Must Die.' I felt, maybe for the first time, like a poet and a professor at once.

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Hi, so, state sanctioned protests are just parades. Hope this helps.

I hope everyone on here talking about 'occupying private property is wrong and the police response is warranted' realizes that they're publicly admitting they would have opposed the Civil Rights Movement

The Woodpecker Pecks, but the Hole does Not Appear
Charles Wright 💔

It's hard to imagine how unremembered we all become,
How quickly all that we've done
is unremembered and unforgiven

I’m employed! I’ll be working on First Amendment litigation in service of pro-Palestine organizers ☺️

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 “When we said we loved free speech we meant only speech we like in spaces we control and also we’ll have you deported”

'So, fund-raising, development concerns may be driving the administration’s efforts to silence the protests. But when one looks at the accounting data, it is not obvious why this should be the priority that it is often taken to be.' - Adam Tooze

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…

does Jay Hartzell know that students in my morning class informed me that they also don’t feel comfortable returning to campus ? one said “he’ll call troopers on us for any little thing now, how are we supposed to come back?”

“You slept next to me for eight straight hours” A poem by Dean Rader.

Refaat and I were supposed to attend the Pal Writes literary festival at UPenn in September 2023.
Refaat very much wanted to travel and take part but he couldn’t attend a visa interview at the US embassy because of the siege and occupation.
I went, however, and I attended the…

Najwan Darwish

Reckless, Decoy -- the work of Marie Ungar

The waterfowl are insatiable here. Lucky us.

dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

marie ungar

'...I like when poems lie.'

“Authorized protest” is an oxymoron.