Posts Tagged ‘colonialism’
Dark & Cold Water Worlds – The Deep & Blackfish City
I’m still softened by just having finished “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, listening to Drexciya and trying to gather my thoughts, waving like seagrass. Just a few days ago I also finished “Blackfish City” by Sam J. Miller, which is why I’m writing about both of them now, still fresh in my mind. They both embody worlds of water, one colder than the other.
Read MoreDear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow or Dear Poetry, How Are You So Powerful
I read “Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.” by Noor Hindi like one passes through a storm, intensely and hurried, and then I read it again with a close friend, N., slower, letting it simmer through us.
It is powerful, superbly formed, disruptive of anti-arab narratives,
Read MoreRead Palestine: Light In Gaza & Palestinian poems
In the essay “Gaza asks: When shall this pass?” poet and academician Refaat Alareer writes with force and vulnerability about the long-held resilience of Palestinian people, the reliance on saying “it shall pass” from grandmother to mother, transmitted intergenerationally. One form of resistance is storytelling, as he writes:
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