they/them | poet laureate of hellworld | cave canem fellow | 2021 nea fellow | ballast (haymarket, 2023) https://nitter.gq/t.co/Iq5rhpH4Kgโฆ
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ballast enters the world today. it took seven years and a whole mess of effort/grace/love from a lot of folks to make it possible, and i am profoundly grateful. may it live a long life.
ALT a photo of the poetry collection ballast. lying on a worn wood table, below succulents in cute cups
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UC Irvine, one of the most sterile backdrops for a college campus you will ever witness. And a woman with a soul
natasha is truly the best of us. please help them outโค๏ธ
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ballast is a year old today. the world is a year worse, a year more genocidal. grateful to have this work in the world and thankful to everyone who has engaged with it; deeply sad this is the world we work in and against.
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I have just finished, in one sitting, @QuentonBaker's *ballast* ... & tho I rarely comment on literature like this, I feel compelled to say:
ballast is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever encountered. I am astonished, bereft, shaken. A profound experience.
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"Writing is my act of resilience. Writing is my way to make change. Writing is my way to see the ripples go," Anastacia-Reneรฉ tells us. #BriefButSpectacular
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Really grateful that my books are published with presses who express principled, material support for Palestinians, esp in times like these. Support ALL of these amazing & brave presses, esp the smaller ones who need us now more than ever
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Alright, since you decided to ask me, I'll tell you why the same guy you praise for "wonderful analysis" also concludes, based on the facts & evidence, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:
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I want my Jewish community to understand that Palestine will be free. Itโs inevitable. Palestinians will never cede their land to settlers & look at the protests today โ the world is with ๐ต๐ธ This global solidarity is beautiful & thereโs nothing more Jewish than resisting genocide
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The LARGEST Palestinian protest in the history of the United States.
Iโm so proud ๐ฅน
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There were hundreds of thousands of people marching on the White House today and I saw only a single helicopter and no major news crews
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Eternally disappointed. Exhausted beyond words. Every time I think I've reached the floor of my exhaustion, a new floor emerges.
Please read, sign, & share widely. Boycotting the poetry foundation until they take a clear stance against genocide.
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I'm going to breakdown parts of this Atlantic article - how dangerous this and the ideas presented in it are.
This piece isn't concerned with truths of colonization & Israel, but with dismissing Palestinian claims of history & crimes by Israel.
It's Nakba denialism.
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โWe come togetherโฆto express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation.โ
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writersagainstthewarongaza.cโฆ
