This is the longest I’ve ever kept a secret. Don’t mind me while I update my bio. Congratulations to my fellow @NEAarts poetry fellows!

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me.
I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023.
of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children. Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024. Blessings to the graves of my grandparents who I will never find.
Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food or firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023.
Blessings to many more, many more.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE!
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

If you’re a professor at Columbia or NYU—tenured or otherwise—it is so important that you continue to voice your outrage at the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.

If you haven’t spoken up yet, now is the time. This fight is being lost.

Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide

Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide

UN Report: Israel is committing genocide

Genocide Scholars: Israel is committing genocide

Biden: Here’s another $8,000,000,000 for Israel

Democrats: Biden is a decent man

Don't recall ever holding a book and feeling an immediate surge of tears. A narrator of Palestine, of an unfathomable loss that ultimately snatched him away from us too.

I can think of no more perfect image to encapsulate the modern Democratic Party than this sundowning butcher, this lamest of lame ducks, doddering out of the rose garden to press the KILL MORE PALESTINIANS button for the 100th time like it’s a morphine pump in a hospice.

“More children have been killed in Gaza in 6 months than the total number of children killed in all other war zones worldwide over 3 years, multiplied by 4.”

“Do you hear what I’m saying?”

—Norman Finkelstein

Merry Christmas from Palestine 🇵🇸

The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.'

Solmaz Sharif

Y’all I—

So late on this but…. Thrilled to announce our BOTN nominations!

maybe my favorite thing about meeting @RuthAwad was everything!!! her poems!!! her reading of poems, my goodness!!! but also, it was both of us seriously being like…now wtf is indiana

It’s not okay to murder Arab men either, by the way.

and you’ll heavy the whining floorboards
of the house you filled with animals

as hurt and lost as you, and the bearded irises will form

—#PoetoftheWeek @RuthAwad reads her feature poem "Reasons to Live"

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but the spray of scorpion grass keeps growing,
and the dogs will sing their whole bodies

in praise of you, and the redbuds will lay

—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @RuthAwad

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Join us this week for our Reading Series with Christopher Rey Pérez, @RuthAwad & @Danez_Smif, @BarotRick's book launch, a craft lab fundraiser with @Danez_Smif, drop-ins with @Ramyaramana & @keithwilsonpoet, and free community groups! Learn more at: mailchi.mp/brooklynpoets/…

If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with
@francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce, porter for human rights everywhere.

All of this answer needs to be heard around the world. All of it: "Israel has conducted an attack, an unprecedented attack....now especially after the Knesset passed a law outlawing Unrwa... This is the nail in the coffin of the UN charter."

As someone whose career is dedicated to diplomacy, and has worked for and with the UN. I could not agree more with her words.