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June 15, 2021
Drowning in the time allotted for truce,we manufacture spare heartsin case we lose the hearts each of us has.We’re uncertain of life’s worthon the slipping edge,yet it seems hope can’t be shelled all at once.The minute details of war,poison gas we can’t thwartfrom ...

How I Kill Soldiers
June 08, 2021
Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here. Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...

Dawn
June 01, 2021
Dawn broke on our heads.Endings were cut down to size.Our little ones’ feetrapidly turnedtoward the sky.Time set itself asideand places shut their eyes,like a child with wordsthat gray behind her lids.Ceilings tumbledwaterfalls of stone,and under the rubblethe last perceived ...

Poems From Palestine
June 01, 2021
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A Culture of Resistance
September 30, 2020
Over the past decade, Mohamad Junaid has emerged as one of the most eloquent Kashmiri voices in support of self-determination. Born in 1981 in Islamabad—a city in the Kashmir Valley—he was eight years old the year mass protests began to gather steam, and he came of age ...