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Toward an Apocalypse of Letters—Foreword to 25.1: Catastrophe

November 4, 2024

by George Abraham

Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unknowable sources. And then the flood.

Flashbang

October 29, 2024

by Leila Mansouri

The building next door was stripped naked, its shattered windows gaping onto disarranged kitchens and bedrooms. My aunt’s building was leveled entirely.

“Pow,” she said, flattening the air between her hands.

Now, for the Weather

October 10, 2024

by Aurielle Marie

here: here: here: here: take what I have in exchange
(but what do I have?) just this:

Gazan Despair

October 3, 2024

by Yahya Ashour

Dear sky,
where were you
when our homes were being
bombed?

Ayşenur and Rachel

September 17, 2024

by Raya Tuffaha

how evergreen.

It Always Starts with Words

September 5, 2024

by Olivia Elias

above the ghetto in flames
frantically dance the goddesses
of vengeance & conquest

Gaza 2 Khartoum

August 30, 2024

by Mohammed Zenia

Toussaint Nate Turner Leila Khaled John Brown Tubman Joseph Garang
(2 name but so many few)

Poem

August 22, 2024

by Danez Smith

nature

i hear your prayer.
i see your terror.
i know my teeth.

How Is Your Devastation Today?

August 16, 2024

by Fady Joudah

They say the father refused
to be a collaborator. And the mother,
a physician, a specific kind of witness,
had looked at her killers the wrong way.

ATMOSPHERE OF GLASS

August 15, 2024

by Andrea Abi-Karam

the professor likes to do magic tricks & i hate him for it. he uses tricks to get out of needing to explain the mechanistic truth behind reactions.

Ash and Air: a Poetry Folio from Gaza

August 9, 2024

by Nadine Murtaja

I might turn
twenty
next month
I might not. . .

various stages of unheard

July 30, 2024

by Sophia Attigui

She has bound herself to listening and has been careful not to speak for her subjects. Even the very act of stealing the camera is part of this redressing.

New Habits

July 3, 2024

by Farah Barqawi

I await her daily dispatches so I can edit and publish them. I get this homework done quickly, afraid any tardiness would disappoint the teacher.

Uncrafted #1: An Interview with Chase Berggrun

June 19, 2024

by Hazem Fahmy

But for me, the ways in which poems allow a reader to access feeling, I think those are also the ways in which poems are really useful political tools. Because a poem does not allow politics to be disentangled from the material reality of feeling.

in the genocide: a Poetry Folio

May 28, 2024

by Omar Sakr

If I could,
Dear martyr, I would not leave you here
In a poem, but in my arms