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"Against these walls: Disrupting the war machine from Sonora to Gaza" connects more dots; to show how the entity's genocide against Palestinians is interwoven with colonial-imperialist aggression across the world, including the Sonoran Desert. to resist. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/aga...

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Watch/Listen to the launch @haymarketbooks.org—music by Patrick Shiroishi, greeting by Mitsuye Yamada, poems by Anne Watanabe, Michael Prior, Carolyn Nakagawa, Cath Goulding, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Emily Mitamura, Mike Ishii, Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno, statement by Tsuru for Solidarity: t.ly/X6ItQ

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Today is the official release of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration @haymarketbooks.org, feat. poetry by 66 descendants of people of Japanese and Okinawan ancestry imprisoned during WWII, edited by Brynn Saito and me: t.ly/lHUcV

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First question, first answer: @poetsorg.bsky.social: What themes do you explore in Moon Mirrored Indivisible? @faridmatuk.bsky.social: I live near an Air Force base.

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My daughter said she had a bad day at school, and when I asked her why, she got quiet, looked at the floor, and said: "Because we read Dr. Seuss."

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As Israel carries out an accelerated starvation campaign in Gaza, please support Palestinian-led efforts, such as The Sameer Project, which has several ongoing campaigns for water, food, shelter, and medical aid. Including their Ramadan campaign, which is ~60% to its goal. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

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Join us at Elliott Bay Books on April 10 for the Seattle launch of "The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration." I will moderate w editors Brynn Saito & Brandon Shimoda & readings from poets Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Sharon Hashimoto, Tamiko Nimura, and Troy Osaki. 1/2

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Grateful to announce that the anthology Brynn Saito and I have been working on the past couple of years — of poetry on Nikkei (Japanese Okinawan American Canadian) incarceration by 66 descendants of people imprisoned during WWII — is out 4/1 @haymarketbooks.org. Cover Rob Sato: thegateofmemory.com

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Grateful to announce that the anthology Brynn Saito and I have been working on the past couple of years — of poetry on Nikkei (Japanese Okinawan American Canadian) incarceration by 66 descendants of people imprisoned during WWII — is out 4/1 @haymarketbooks.org. Cover Rob Sato: thegateofmemory.com

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Go to gazafunds.com: a project that connects people to crowdfunding campaigns for people in Gaza and Gazans in the diaspora who have lost support and loved ones in the genocide. Each time the page is reloaded, a different campaign appears. The most in-need fundraisers are prioritized.

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from an email Etel Adnan wrote to me on December 31, 2010:

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It's all because life, too, these days, has started to talk, and made me believe that night is a divinity made of all the others, and that in its heart trees are growing whose nature is of a new reality. Etel Adnan, Night

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Mahmoud Darwish, On Poetry, tr. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb

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I'm asked sometimes: "Why is there so much history of contemporary war in your poetry?" I've answered: "Because it's not me that writes it, it's history that writes it." —Etel Adnan, The Beauty of Light, tr. Ethan Mitchell

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Unsi al-Hajj, The Days and the Giants, tr. from Arabic by Abdullah al-Udhari:

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Honored and grateful to be able to include your words/voice — 4 times! — throughout the book, Miko!... (including in the chapter where descendants describe the experience of visiting the sites where their family members were incarcerated during WWII):

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The chapter keeps going...

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We asked our friends at @liberationlib.bsky.social for a reading list of their recommended books, and, boy, did they deliver! Here are just a few of their selections, and you can check out the whole list on our website and donate to support their work here: pilsencommunitybooks.com?q=p.book_lists

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Poetry is against death—it's both sickness and cure, the bare soul and its clothes. —Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun, tr. Humphrey Davies

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Read the opening of my book The Afterlife Is Letting Go—which describes the murder of a Japanese man in a US concentration camp; the memorial erected for him; the destruction of the memorial; the discovery 78 years later of the memorial; and what happened after— @literaryhub.bsky.social: t.ly/JrZ6b

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The man known for “The soul of soul” which he said about his murdered granddaughter got killed today. The soul of the soul was killed. And the soul is now killed too.

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A chapter of my book, The Afterlife Is Letting Go—the ch. about The Nakamoto Group, a Japanese American-owned company contracted by ICE to inspect migrant detention facilities, and about JA-led social justice org Tsuru for Solidarity's protest at their office, in 2019—is @thebaffler.com: t.ly/gP9QI

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Go to gazafunds.com: a project that connects people to crowdfunding campaigns for people in Gaza and Gazans in the diaspora who have lost support and loved ones in the genocide. Each time the page is reloaded, a different campaign appears. The most in-need fundraisers are prioritized.

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“Writing poems for my grandmother was a way to talk to her about the world she was leaving behind. Poetry was, then, a way of providing—or trying to provide—consolation,” writes @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, author of The Afterlife Is Letting Go (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social). at.pw.org/WRShimoda

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"Sometimes I hold the moment's rose—" —Saadi Yousef, Blue, tr. Abdullah al-Udhari

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Out Now: "The Afterlife is Letting Go" by Patrick Shiroshi. Created to accompany the book 'The Afterlife is Letting Go', written by Brandon Shimoda & published by City Lights. Digital Download available in 24-bit/96kHz patrickshiroishireleases.bandcamp.com/album/the-af...

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