When indigenous and formally colonized people from ALL OVER THE GLOBE are showing solidarity with Palestine, ask yourself why you chose to stand with the occupation
“And I’m mocked by friends who say, ‘What use is poetry? What use will it be when the war ends?’ But I’m screaming at a moment when screams can go nowhere. And it strikes me that language must force itself into a battle in which voices are not equal. (…) —But what are you writing? ‘I’m stammering out a scream,’ I answer.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
I know it’s not much in the face of everything but I have been finding hope & resilience in palestinian poetry these past few weeks and I created a google drive file of poetry collections by palestinian poets that I will keep updating as I keep on reading. I also recommend checking out @fiercynn’s palestinian poets series for more poets + poetry available online
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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES TOOK THIS PICTURE TO HUMANIZE THEIR FORCES, ONLY TO KILL THE MAN MINUTES LATER💥
According to Al-Quds News Agency, Israeli Occupation Forces took the picture of an occupation soldier with an old Palestinian man on his arm.
Occupation Forces killed the old Palestinian man soon after the photo was taken according to the man's granddaughter and Al-Quds News.
"The language of flowers and silent things."
– Charles Baudelaire, from Elevation; Fleurs Du Mal (tr. by William Aggeler), 1857
People still trying to justify a genocide in front of my eyes is making me feral
mahmoud darwish / sharif s. elmusa, “flawed landscape” / fredrika bremer / naomi shihab nye, “different ways to pray” / mahmoud darwish, “the second olive tree” / miftah, olive trees – more than just a tree in palestine
even as a shadow, as a dream...
Euripides (tr by Anne Carson), Anne Magill, John Berger and Jean Mohr, Anna Akhmatova, Madeline Miller
Gaza, Palestine (2004). Photographed by Abid Katib.
Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf
[text: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This may be me at my best.]
musings on november
― Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)
˗ˏˋin case you’d like to buy me a☕ˎˊ˗
"Who Remembers the Armenians?" by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish / "Who Remembers the Palestinians?" by Armenian writer Sophia Armen
Mahmoud Darwish, from "Mural", Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & Carolyn Forché)