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Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Today marks two years since Hamas’ October 7 massacre and the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza. We asked Palestinians and Jews on our team how they felt about their home then — and how they feel now. To see the full post, click here shorturl.at/msoVq
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They'd have to admit that their goal had been ultimate revenge and genocide all along and that they're not there (???!!!!) yet.

Two years of hell. Under our noses. And ongoing!!
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A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

Absolutely love that final phrase.

From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458

#poetry #books #writing

Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

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YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen I met with relatives of Americans on Gaza aid flotilla who were detained by Netanyahu government

On Friday I spoke with relatives of Americans on the Gaza aid flotilla who were being detained by Netanyahu’s government.

Ambassador Huckabee says his highest duty is to protect Americans abroad but has done virtually nothing to return them. He needs to do his job.

Unless you're an actual hen you're not laying on whatever surface in the present tense--my hill to die on. (Also: PSA.)

Thank you @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for so faithfully keeping this up!

October Sun Glitter and sharpness sever sky from crowns today. No dulling the edge.

An October haiku from way back for #smallPoemSunday, published by UCity Review (also way back).
The weather is as clear today as when I wrote this.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48757/...

Change a few words around and it applies 40ish years later...

People need food, and World Central Kitchen brings it wherever it's needed. Happy to be able to support them in this way. Pre-order sale in effect until next Tuesday!

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Cream background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket to the left. To the right is the text “On-sale April 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib”

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ INTIFADAS by Edward Salem, is a subtly transgressive poetry collection about uprising in its many forms—in art, politics, and our most personal relationships. Selected by Hanif Abdurraqib to win the 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Available April 2026. Preorder in bio!

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‘Kidnapping’: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla; detains activists, Thunberg Activists on board Global Sumud Flotilla report interceptions after Israeli vessels approached.

I know we have a lot going on stateside, but you should know: Israel has once again kidnapped civilians in international waters, including Greta Thunberg. Some boats from the Sumud Flotilla managed to outmaneuver, & are now closer to Gaza than any attempt to date.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Caribou Kitchen Most things have vanished while we were talking (the dents in a pitcher gleam by the gas lamp), but nothing is lost (cups in far corners). Arms still lean over the table (shadows on the oilcloth).

I love how this poem expands a quiet moment.

Caribou Kitchen by Annie Finch in Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003)

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TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and the late yellow petals of the mullein fluttering on the stalks that lean over their broken shadows across the cracked ground but they all know that you have come the seed heads of the sage the whispering birds with nowhere to hide you to keep you for later you who fly with them you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew

you who are neither before nor after
you who arrive with blue plums
that have fallen through the night
perfect in the dew

-W.S. Merwin, To the Light of September"
#everynightapoem sharing Merwin on his birthday

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

New issue DIAGRAM 25.3 LET'S GOOOO thediagram.com/25_3/index.h...

Crafting the “Other”: On Hybrid & Beyond-Genre by Bradley David Waters Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c...

And I'm not even sure if this 20 point plan, contingent on so many conditions, is going to actually stop the bombing and have the flow of aid start up again.