October 28, 2023

The Bringers of Violence

by Ismail Khalidi

Again, Fanon’s words come to mind: “The town belonging to the colonized people . . . the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.”

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June 14, 2025

To Patrick Swayze, Thanks for Everything! Mejdulene Shomali

by Mejdulene B. Shomali

                the bouncer of my road house heart
           my wild Johnny
the first man i thought to love

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June 9, 2025

Two Poems

by Trish Salah

When you try to speak of home
What comes out is kisses, birds

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June 5, 2025

Wrong Winds—Excerpts

by Ahmad Almallah

I don’t know mainly how
to save myself from my
words: I would want them
all, alive and well, or at
once, all at once, burning.

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