the trees stopped growing

I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

don’t you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him?

These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.

Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza. If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our…

Hope is

A poem found in the tags of a tumblr post.

this is why we dance

a poem about resistance

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying

By Noor Hindi Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care…

The Poet of the Information Desk

Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, “Information Desk: An Epic” in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing…

“Before I Was a Gazan”, Naomi Shihab Nye

404 poem

The 404 page of the poetry foundation

For a Coming Extinction

By W. S. Merwin Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him  That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing…