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please please please evaluate your capacity for risk at actions and position yourself accordingly--there are so many other modes of action if you do not want to be arrestable--jail support, bridge building btwn coalitions and encampments, passing out masks, teach ins, etc.

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JAIL SUPPORT FOR COLUMBIA STUDENTS INFO via nycpym and cssw4palestine on ig

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2200+ writers are boycotting zionist literary institutions 92NY, Best American Poetry, Milkweed Editions' Max Ritvo Prize, PEN, The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Harper's Bazaar + Frankfurt Book Fair. A resource doc w their zionist affiliations + actions--

Writers4Palestine Resource Doc

BDS: Zionist Literary Institutions This is a working doc that we will continue to update going forward. 92NY Hosted a panel on Israel at War: Itamar Rabinovich, Richard Haass, and Lihi Ben Shitrit in...

docs.google.com

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@yiiiiwei

11 months

drafted this letter in alignment w othr writers in + out of the u.s. calling for material action amongst literary institutions + clear individual solidarity frm writers. deep gratitude to those who gave their time +words. we ask that you read, sign + share

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drafted this letter in alignment w othr writers in + out of the u.s. calling for material action amongst literary institutions + clear individual solidarity frm writers. deep gratitude to those who gave their time +words. we ask that you read, sign + share

WRITERS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of “Israel" and the violent settler colonial apartheid state. We strongly condemn the...

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nearly 2000 writers are committing to these material asks until demands are met—

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@yiiiiwei

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1,000+ writers will be boycotting zionist literary institutions Best American Poetry, 92nd Street Y Discovery Prize, PEN America, Frankfurt Book Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar.

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@yiiiiwei

11 months

drafted this letter in alignment w othr writers in + out of the u.s. calling for material action amongst literary institutions + clear individual solidarity frm writers. deep gratitude to those who gave their time +words. we ask that you read, sign + share

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beloved june jordan

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2 years

solmaz sharif said, I hope to write like a pigeon—rodentially, vaguely diseased, a nuisance, u rly can’t tell one from the other, they’re shitting all over u. I write whatever I want to write. behind it, I want to end it. I write out of a commitment to end the thing I'm writing

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weird half measures from poets all around when the asks from palestinian poets to boycott poetry foundation are clear and uncompromising

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9 months

special delivery at the nyu writers house

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11 months

Christina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, + Saidiya Hartman cancelled their event upon committing to boycott days ago; @92ndStreetY has not updated their event or stopped selling tickets. Sharpe recently made a statement on her Twitter clarifying that all 3 had cancelled-

Ladan

@OsmanLadan

11 months

Why is @92ndStreetY still selling tickets for the Sharpe/Brand/Hartman event, which the authors *canceled* to protest this org’s imperialist stance on the relentless massacre of Palestinians? I’ve written to them for a refund. Here’s the link, still live:

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10 months

read all about it

Writers Against the War on Gaza

@wawog_now

10 months

EXCLUSIVE: The 100+ journalists, artists, and cultural workers known as Writer’s Bloc who’ve taken over the @nytimes lobby to demand Editorial Board call for ceasefire in Gaza have issued a statement. Read their statement here:

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the asks—

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cameron awkward-rich, diane diprima, etel adnan, solmaz sharif

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white poets infusing anything mystical into their work:

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love debriefs of all kinds. friend debriefs. date debriefs. action debriefs. strategy call debriefs. I love to collect observations n commiserate over shared experiences..

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solmaz sharif said she keeps scratching at the impossibilities of language in poems bc it’s like two people standing near each other and she says, “can you hear that?” n never knowing if either of them even heard it; “the quiet in between them in that moment, why not be there”

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3 years

four bangers on love—june jordan, frank bidart, kaveh akbar, audre lorde

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9 months

every single one of you fumbling around inconsistent speaking and action one protest or post to ease the digestion of your detached everyday living posts and drama a shy stand after 61 days and so many martyrs I see you and I will remember your cowardice for the rest of my life

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QUEERS WAKE UP! FREE PALESTINE zine from @Alielchaer_ 🫶🏼🇵🇸

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3 years

no capitalism but I’m now the assistant editor of flash fiction at @aaww 😭😭😭😭 I fucking love talking to writers about their work and making your voices feel like enough!!!! because they are and I’m gonna work to bring y’all even more resources to thrive

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@yiiiiwei

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if mosab abu toha is not released, the poets of this country will riot loudly and clearly until he is.

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my poem in @canthius issue 10 w so many luminaries, edited by the warm n brilliant @sannareya !!

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@yiiiiwei

2 years

here’s my poem! a warm thank you to frontier for publishing this, it’s an honor ❤️‍🔥

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

2 years

Today we’re delighted to share Yi Wei’s poem, “Diction,” winner of Frontier’s $5k OPEN prize!! “When we have time, we ask our own poems, are you angry. Are you dead. Play dead.” - @yiiiiwei Read it here:

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collectively as writers of conscience, we are setting precedents with each boycott as these literary institutions enforce silence on genocide + attempt to silence the laborers that have created their very audience. each mass divestment becomes easier than the last

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@yiiiiwei

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this is your future silent careerists

The Onion

@TheOnion

10 months

Sellout Poet Made Over $150 In 2023 Alone

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I’m still thinking abt what kaveh and solmaz said abt the value of rage—that it should be acknowledged n not shamed. that the inclination of poets + people is to ask those defiled and massacred by empires to “rise above” n ignore the rage they feel in grief n even love

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9 months

non palestinians who are doing nothing have the most to say about the tactics of people who are organizing right now and let me tell u, the intellectual who only criticizes is an enemy of progress too

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poets who belittle confused readers as "not getting poetry" are the most boring people in the world. what is language if not a way for us to speak, argue, understand one another better. if anyone who arrives at my work is not able to enter it, it is a failure for me and me alone

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2 years

happy valentines day ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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re this, want folks to move this energy towards more material and direct actions like organizing walkouts if you’re in zionist+legislative spaces / following the work of @Pal_ActionUS to start. I ask that you all be ready to hold your material weight in this country for ransom

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new poem out today in @PigeonPagesNYC !!

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solmaz sharif

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our asks

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LUNAR NEW YEAR 🐉 courage, expansion, ferocity in the direction of collective freedom. love and loving, charm and charisma! may we be grounded, nourished, inventive in how we show up for eachother.

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2000+ writers are committed to BDS () until Palestine is free. We are calling on literary institutions who have fallen silent to voice their clear unwavering solidarity w/ Palestine, and begin the process of divesting from zionist funding and affiliations.

BDS Movement

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.

bdsmovement.net

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@yiiiiwei

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drafted this letter in alignment w othr writers in + out of the u.s. calling for material action amongst literary institutions + clear individual solidarity frm writers. deep gratitude to those who gave their time +words. we ask that you read, sign + share

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yes

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actionable—reach out to poets you know who have forthcoming events to talk about the boycott and open letter, encouraging continued divestment and cancellation! 🫶🏼

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2 years

“I wasn’t looking for you so I could kill you. I was just looking for someone who could see what I see, feel what I feel.”

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3 years

the girlbossification of poetry

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playing paperboy for my favorite publication (new york war crimes issue 3)

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You cannot purport to support an event that was closed by a zionist institution bc of Nguyen’s solidarity with Palestine when you are quietly pursuing an outpost in “Israel” among other violations.

PEN America

@PENamerica

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PEN America is proud to support our trustee @minjinlee11 in conversation tonight with Viet Thanh Nguyen at the relocated event at @mcnallyjackson at South Street Seaport.

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my mentorship syllabus for @sunhouselit <3

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@yiiiiwei

9 months

good, poetry doesn’t belong there

Kim Addonizio

@kim_addonizio

9 months

The New York Times Magazine announced today that it is ending its poetry column after nine years. One more of the 1000-plus cuts trying to kill the poetic imagination. Shame on you. @nytimes @nytimesbooks

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4 years

I JUST GOT INTO NYU’S MFA PROGRAM ON A FULLY FUNDED FELLOWSHIP OH NY GOD

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something very sacred and wonderful abt being on a dark quiet bus full of protesters returning from dc

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don’t talk to me about the carceral stop asian hate campaign bc I’m gna respond in a very pro east asian hate way

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@yiiiiwei

3 years

I love hanging out w poets bc I’ll be like “yea spring was weird for me” and someone will say something like “yes to return to a place that can no longer make sense of what is life-giving to you must be very disorienting” and I have to pull out my notes app to write it down

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3 years

so so honored to be a finalist!! thank you for reading my words 😭🥳

Palette Poetry

@PalettePoetry

3 years

today, we're delighted to share the finalists and longlist for the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets 🎉 please join us in congratulating these luminous poets—winners selected by @maggiesmithpoet will be announced soon!

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happy august here’s my syllabus!!

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@yiiiiwei

2 years

CLASS IS IN SESSION THIS FALL!! get ready nyu and full syllabus otw

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I’m so excited to share this poem—like most things, it’s a piece of my heart. thank you @maggiesmithpoet @PalettePoetry what a dream!!!

Palette Poetry

@PalettePoetry

3 years

📣 presenting the 3RD PLACE WINNER of the 2021 Sappho Prize: "Look" by Yi Wei! "I admire the way this poem explores multiple iterations of experience—like turning something in one’s hands..." —judge @maggiesmithpoet 🌟 read "Look" by @yiiiiwei here:

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so honored and can’t wait to share my poem w you 1/16!!! congrats to all the finalists and longlist, and a big thank you to the readers editors and judges who spent time w my piece 🫶🏼🧧

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

2 years

we’re delighted to announce the results of the 2022 Frontier OPEN: warm congrats to Yi Wei ( @yiiiiwei ), author of “Diction,” the winning poem! and congrats to our finalists, who will receive $100 and publication! view the long list and see details:

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@yiiiiwei

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sitting heavy w christina yuna lee’s murder in chinatown. the only way I’ve found to survive feeling grief and rage literally all the time is by loving the people I love through the cracks of it

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1 year

the folio is out

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3 years

last spring I decided I wanted to do an asian american studies thesis so I wrote and approved my own double major...and here she is!! this thesis will be the first in a new collection for the tri co asian american studies program launching fall 2021 :’)

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yes. the goal of leaking / da against these prestigious institutions must be to humiliate and dismantle them entirely. we are not begging them to change, we are delegitimizing them entirely as a reputable source of information and authority. who wants to write for a rag?

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@KindaHagi

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they also are not banking on how people are beginning to care less and less about the achievement of getting published there! the stain on the nyt is growing

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just gonna put out there that this statement effectively co-opts and defangs any speeches made in political protest abt the genocide. feels like an empty land acknowledgement to cater to everyone’s comfortability attending a gala in the midst of everything

National Book Foundation

@nationalbook

10 months

An Update about the National Book Awards

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@yiiiiwei

5 months

SEND BAIL FUNDS TO @/bcabolitioncollective on venmo

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2 years

I have experienced transformational life affirming love in the relationships of my life (friendships, mentors, lovers) and it’s why I will be a love poet until the day I die

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@yiiiiwei

10 months

free submissions at @poetryonl for SWANA writers, $60 per poem + focus on accessible publication

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10 months

writers bloc says you’re invited

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1 year

call me academy of american poets the way I’m writing a poem a day

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6 months

we are live

The New York War Crimes | “All the Consent That’s Fit to Manufacture”

newyorkwarcrimes.com

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10 months

my writing is a byproduct of my living and speaking, always

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7 months

we need a long term general strike from labor and capital and we need to firmly invest in community infrastructure and safety nets for workers in order to sustain it but I fear only a small number of us are willing to full send it there and it’s so so insanity inducing

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2 years

CLASS IS IN SESSION THIS FALL!! get ready nyu and full syllabus otw

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seeing too many white ppl in chinatown today (1+)

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2 years

so glad to be a finalist for the 2022 loraine williams poetry prize n big congrats to felicia zamora!!! 🥳 thank u @GeorgiaReview and dawn lundy martin!

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revisiting protest checklist— cover your face, wear black or nondescript clothing, ask a friend who’s not outside to text safety check ins + be on call to coordinate medic / food / water, go w someone else or find a group

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@yiiiiwei

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the stop asian hate campaign has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from american weapons manufacturers and directly informed the influx of cash going towards cops after atlanta 2021 and now “against anti semitism”

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3 years

I can’t believe I’m being paid to sit and write for two years. it’s really just hitting me. about to ocean vuong this shit

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asking you to detach from the critiques that are central to us based organizing around performance and performativity re Palestine when Palestinians have asked us to be as LOUD and DISRUPTIVE as possible in the conversations we have, social / professional spaces we occupy

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now the exterior matches the interior

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happy halloween! swati and I are opening flash subs again for just the next six weeks!! I worked with so many brilliant emerging writers last cycle and I just want to say—if you have a story, share it. I’m interested in you and your words.

Asian American Writers' Workshop

@aaww

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Calling all Asian American fiction writers! Got some new work to share? Old work that you'd like to revive? #TheMargins is accepting #FlashFiction submissions through November 15! Send your short stories, excerpts, works in progress, and tableaus to

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swat said bc we’re activists we will NOT be raising tuition 😌 it will just be exactly the same for ur professor vlogging for u in ur room 👑👑👑 thank u.

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5 months

another poem in @MuzzleMagazine

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3 years

at his reading tn kaveh akbar said “we are all babies in this universe and will live forever” and he’s so right

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@yiiiiwei

11 months

disappointing—your first statement got it right. to condemn violence on both sides dismisses and permisses the violent dispossession of palestinians over 73 years, still now and presently in gaza. delete and reconsider

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@yiiiiwei

4 months

supporters, readers, writers—divest, divest. there are braver places that deserve our work and attention

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

4 months

To our communities, stakeholders and friends: Please read this important message from Kundiman’s Board of Trustees

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@yiiiiwei

5 months

george said the other day, institutions never want to be the one to stand for something outright, they want the subject to do the speaking and "provide the space," which is exactly what this statement does. but is it a space that honors the subject and what is being spoken?

Poetry Foundation

@PoetryFound

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A boycott of the Poetry Foundation that began last November was recently lifted. This update is intended to foster better communication, connection, and understanding following the conversations and learning that came from this time. Read in full here:

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the language of “hate crimes” to justify policing has only ever used us—us being east asians in this case—as human shields for more money in the police dept, less visibility for crimes committed by those same police, all under the guise of protection like let’s give it up

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fortunately for me and everyone in my life I’m observant and confrontational

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@yiiiiwei

11 months

we are laborers, tenants, students, taxpayers. they may not understand reason but they understand punishment. take away their money, their audience, their legitimacy

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the goals and aims of our actions must be more radical than we can materially imagine. we are not asking for everyone to agree, we are setting up a framework where anyone who compromises also compromises more radically than they would have otherwise

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it is almost fall, if any writer of color is interested in or conflicted abt applying to an mfa, I am happy to share my written statements n (very short) list of programs, Very Candid / sometimes also conflicted experiences, n thoughts

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11 months

We're still updating this resource doc as more zionist literary institutions come into focus / are being updated to us; we may also be coordinating different forms of action moving forward. Sign up here to be updated more sustainably via email.

Writers4Palestine Boycott Email Sign-Up

We're starting an email list in order to better coordinate information and action without relying solely on social media. Please enter your email if you want to stay updated on Writers4Palestine...

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AAAA I’M OFFICIALLY READING FOR @aaww !!!!!! one of the oldest + most radical asian american lit orgs/presses in the country this is the DREAM

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kids should be treated as full people w complex thoughts, feelings n experiences to share, and w none of the responsibilities or expectations of labor that come w being an adult. I will die on this hill

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@yiiiiwei

11 months

Literary centers and institutions who have fallen silent—we see your silence too.

warsan shire

@warsan_shire

11 months

I will not be reading poems this weekend at the @Skirball_LA . They refuse to condemn the active genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. #freepalestine

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1 year

gorgeous poem by twitterless abby mengesha

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

1 year

today we’re thrilled to share “Map” by Global Poetry Prize winner Abigail Mengesha, a striking poem selected by Saddiq Dzukogi “the drawing of a line tends to be—if not the final—the original of catastrophes” read the full piece here:

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