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Just $400 away from reaching this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social $1245 matching campaign to support The Sameer Project's urgent work. Please share and contribute 💞🌿 Let's close this match out this week! ✨✨✨ open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Calling poetry lovers and lovers of other worlds!! Next Sunday, Feb 9th, we welcome Tracy Fuad, who will be teaching a workshop called "Poetics of Incantation." www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/poe...

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See you @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social on Valentine’s Day 🌹❤️

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@openpoetrybooks.bsky.social updated us that your book purchases have enabled us to send $15K to The Sameer Project over the past two months alone! This is truly incredible. Please keep buying books through the site, which has many new titles: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

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“I lived. Lived again. Wrecked, / hungover. Swerved in the dark” -Matthew Nienow, If Nothing open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/nie...

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“I put a period in the middle of your sentence. / I put a period in the middle of your sidewalk.” -Latif Askia Ba, The Choreic Period open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ask...

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“The song wants to be light.” -The Dream of Apples: Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca, translated by Rebecca Seiferle open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/lor...

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We've met the match! ✨ Thank you Eduardo Corral & everyone who contributed via the @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop! $2k will be sent to The Sameer Project to support their work in southern Gaza 💞⛺️ Also: check out & support their campaign in north Gaza as well: chuffed.org/project/help...

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Thanks so much to everyone who's contributed already 💞 Just $175 to go before we reach this match 🌿✨ Let's close this out and get these funds where they're urgently needed! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

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get some of these books on our curated online bookstore: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/... Our incredible comrades @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social donate all proceeds - this month, to The Sameer Project's South Gaza project for tents, food, and medical aid to displaced families.

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We're halfway to our goal for Eduardo Corral's $1k match 🎉Let's get this goal met by the end of the week 🌿✨ Anyone else interested in starting a matching campaign -- reach out! The Sameer Project is doing vital work & we need to support them 💞

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Another matching opportunity from poet Eduardo Corral ❤️

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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

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✨ Fundraising goal! Poet Eduardo Corral has offered to match $1k for all donations through this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop page: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g.... All funds will be sent to The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign. Your $1k = $2k. Let's go! 🌿💞

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hey, i'm organizing a reading group! what you should know: - 1st book is "Imagination: A Manifesto" by @ruha9.bsky.social - proceeds from orders placed through @workshops4gaza.bsky.social will go to Palestinians in Gaza - we'll start Jan 13 - there's still time to order! - many ways to participate

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THREAD OF JANUARY WORKSHOPS 🧵 For folks new to our page, we organize classes, workshops, reading groups and more to help raise money for Palestinians. You register by donating to a fundraiser. All workshops can be viewed here: workshops4gaza.com/workshops

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Just a reminder that if you buy Refaat's new book If I Must Die thru @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social all proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project to support displaced Palestinians in the south of Gz: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

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🚨 @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social haul. Thanks for the recs! (Darwish for the @workshops4gaza.bsky.social ‘shop with @lenakt.bsky.social, which starts in TEN MINUTES!!)

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Update: Thank you so much to everyone who contributed! We're now out of free copies -- but you can always purchase a copy through the incredible W4G bookshop open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g... All proceeds this month go to supporting the urgent work of The Sameer Project.

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“impossible is everything.” -Mikael Johani, Mongrel Kampung (@uglyducklingprs) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/joh...

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“You began to govern yourself by modes of wit.” -Aditi Machado (@aditimachado), Material Witness (@nightboatbooks) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/mac...

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Got mine this way! Thank you, @lenakt.bsky.social & Open Books! ♥️

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❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 OFFER: Cover the cost of a blanket, send us a receipt, and we'll send you a copy of If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose, by Refaat Alareer! Our copies are here and ready to ship out: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

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We’re doing a blanket drive! Instead of engaging in mindless consumerism today, donate to cover the cost of one blanket in the north, approx. $38USD at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-north or $90USD in the south at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-south

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Follow and check out workshops by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , sign up to do a workshop, or visit their online bookstore in partnership w/ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social !

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you can get this amazing book from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social’s curated online bookstore run by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social - all proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza! www.workshops4gaza.com/bookstore/sa...

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Monthly Crips for eSIMS fundraising total for @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop in Nov is more than $5,500 🌿🙌 Can we get to $7,500 by the end of the month? 💞 So many incredible books here, including @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's newest: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

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If you purchase Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s award-winning collection SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING or any of Lena's other incredible collections from Open Books, all proceeds will go straight to HEAL Palestine, a humanitarian organization chosen by Lena ♥️ open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/tuf...

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Update: Thanks to your orders and additional donations, we've met our November goal of $1K in donation funds for HEAL Palestine & and we're now up to $1,700! Can we double our goal by the end of the month? More? Let's keep it going in honor of the wonderful @lenakt.bsky.social 🌿💞

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Since posting this, @workshops4gaza.bsky.social and @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social have both joined Bluesky, for yr follows and support.

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Lena Khalaf just won the poetry award at the National Book Awards. There is a fundraiser with proceeds going to HEAL Palestine when you purchase her book. Go order some poetry!

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Available for preorder @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Mohammed el-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal @haymarketbooks.org, an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal: t.ly/teBTo. Proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza.

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What I've ordered thru these months from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social 's online curated bookstore w/ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/... Sharing because a generous donor has agreed to match up to $250 of proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza!

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Hi please post about our workshops so we can keep supporting people in GZ until this horror ends

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The previous Other People's Poems event was wonderful! @theoceanisgay.bsky.social and @bearable.bsky.social have put so much love and care into this series. And what a magnificent line-up for this next event! Mask up and join us! 📚✨

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Still over the moon with the @nationalbook.bsky.social news! To celebrate, we'd love to raise as much as possible for @lenakt.bsky.social's HEAL Palestine fundraiser. All proceeds from any of Lena's collections will be sent there. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/tuf... ✨📚🌿

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Lena is also teaching a workshop for us on Dec 7 on Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness, which you can sign up for here. All proceeds go to Othman Abd Rabou’s family in GZ: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...

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The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2

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We’ve got a really special poetry event coming up at the bookstore this Friday (11/22): TRANSLATING SURREALISM with C. Francis Fisher and Alice Yang ✨ Join us at 7pm for a reading of two eminent French Surrealists by their brilliant translators!

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If you read this free collection and want to contribute to our writers, several of them have GoFundMes. The poet & mentor Heba al-Agha: www.gofundme.com/f/support-wr... Poet Basman Eldirawi & his brother, the playwright Bassem Eldirawi: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ga... (continues in thread)

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Gift yourself or someone you love an incredible treasury of Palestinian poetry and art! Select from an a la carte list of titles or give the whole 12-book suite. Available for a limited time, through our website ♥️ open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/cop...

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if you're in nyc, come check out our in-person benefit reading at YU AND ME BOOKS on december 4th with JENNY XIE, MEGAN FERNANDES, AND KYLE LUCIA WU! all proceeds are going to the sameer project's refaat alareer camp, which is providing medical aid to GZ: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-b...

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