We started Bull City Press 🐂 in 2006 with a long-arm stapler and $300. Yesterday's SPD shutdown news had me despondent. Today finds me ready for the new challenge. We're gonna keep making books.

Thank you to Griffin Poetry Prize judges & all the brilliant finalists. What a feast. And what a feast of presses as well! Thank you to Copper Canyon Press Farrar,Straus&Giroux Wave Books New Directions Arrowsmith Press 🇺🇦 City Lights Books Penguin Books Archipelago Books Shearsman Granta Books

'If you say Gaza, you must say Gaza.
If you look, you must look until there is no looking left to do.'

READ: 'Revision' by Hala Alyan
guernicamag.com/revision/ via Guernica Magazine

1/ None of the sonnets in frank: sonnets feature regularized meter and rhyme. The book, my nature, is an experiment with form, with what has been called the American Sonnet since Wanda Coleman coined the phrase. Gerald Stern wrote a book of sonnets he called American Sonnets,

What is there left to say? They displaced 1.4 million people to Rafah, now they are attacking it by air and land. What else do I need to do to convince you that Palestinians are human beings? That no one deserves this? If you don't see it by now, you never will.

This Israel is not the Israel we knew. This Israel is everything its forbears fled. Those who recall this, or recognize this, in Israel need to wake up now—before the country caves from the inside out of an ethical & spiritual collapse.

Young Israelis block aid to Gaza while IDF…

One of my favorite humans wrote this poem about the loss of another favorite human. It rides the bracing line between sorrow and endurance, comedy and tragedy. So good, and an honor to publish! hcn.org/issues/56-2/po…

as #AWP24 comes to a close, there many things to unpack, but tonight I'll post some of these excerpts about silence, harm, and truth-telling from Jericho Brown's brilliant keynote

weaves everything from Black liberation to resisting fascism to Gaza & right back to us AWP

As millions of Americans watch the #SuperBowl , Israel has started its “military campaign” in Rafah, where many from northern Gaza have evacuated to shelter from bombs.

It’s slaughter.
It’s ethnic cleansing.
It’s genocide.

Free Rafah.
Free Gaza.
Free Palestine.

Buckle up, this is a thread about sonnets. I know people are discussing Diane Seuss's sonnet, and I know that some are taking to task the poet who didn't see it as a sonnet. (1/)

I'm teaching a new graduate course this semester called Embodied Ethnography. It is a practice-based course built around workshops where students will learn from some amazing ethnographers about how they 'do' ethnography with their whole bodies. We will read:

Today's Poetry Thread: FRIENDS

Feel free to add poems.

So what we’ve learned is: Bad-faith bigots pretending they’re concerned about antisemitism will happily use women of color—especially Black women—as a scapegoat and lightning rod for large systemic issues. And that people invested in maintaining those systemic issues will comply.

Another stellar Diane Seuss poem pinging around inside my brain.

THREAD: Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are again publicly advocating the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Their proposals are being presented as voluntary emigration schemes,

Do you have white teenage sons?

Listen up.

I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists.

Here's how:

THREAD: Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has resumed in full force. The intensity of its bombing and shelling is as intense as before the truce, perhaps even more so. Israel will however find it difficult to continue this campaign for another 50 days.