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Dujie Tahat
@dujietahat.bsky.social
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Read. Write. Ball. Raised immigrant. Raising Americans. Politics is sacred. Poetry is vital. He/they.

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charlesjensen.bsky.social
I love a ghazal so much, and this new one by @dujietahat.bsky.social is a stunner. poets.org/poem/all-ame...
All-American Ghazal
On our first date, I admit I haven’t left since arriving to this country.
poets.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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joeykim.bsky.social
"I is a framing device. What good is a nation. Parts of speech like mine fragment. Cut. Clean. I'm rightless." from "All-American Ghazal" by @dujietahat.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/all-ame...
All-American Ghazal
On our first date, I admit I haven’t left since arriving to this country.
poets.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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paulconstant.com
Congratulations to @dujietahat.bsky.social, who was inaugurated as Seattle Civic Poet this afternoon at City Hall. They gave an awesome speech about the complicated responsibilities of the title and shouted out many great Seattle poets along the way.
Dujie Tahat speaking from the lectern in City Council chambers.
March 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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seattlechannel.bsky.social
📝 @dujietahat.bsky.social was recently inaugurated as City of Seattle's 5th Seattle Civic Poet! Watch Tahat read one of their powerful original poems on Art Zone; and watch their inauguration with remarks from the mayor & leaders from Seattle Office of Arts & @spl.org here: youtu.be/nEHjnYmQp1s
March 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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gabrielteodros.bsky.social
Thank you, @dujietahat.bsky.social. This was beautiful.
I Must Insist That I Am Real
Yesterday, Seattle inaugurated its fifth-ever Civic Poet, Dujie Tahat, in a ceremony in the City Council Chambers. Hosted by the Office of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Seattle Public Libra...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
dujietahat.bsky.social
“And yet / When fire cremates my friends / How can I / Stop a poem from becoming a gun” —Rashid Hussein
AGAINST I am against my country's revolutionaries Wounding a sheath of wheat Against the child any child Carrying a hand grenade I am against my sister Feeling the muscle of a gun Against it all And yet What can a prophet do, a prophetess, When their eyes Are made to drink The sight of the raiders' hordes? I am against boys becoming heroes at ten Against the tree flowering explosives Against branches becoming scaffolds Against the rose-beds turning to trenches Against it all And yet When fire cremates my friends How can I Stop a poem from becoming a gun
January 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
dujietahat.bsky.social
“I want to be / at least as alive as the vulgar.” —Frank O’Hara
December 27, 2024 at 5:33 AM
dujietahat.bsky.social
“Are not the difficult labors of our lives / full of dark hours?” —Mary Oliver
Goldenrod On roadsides, in fall fields, in rumpy bunches, saffron and orange and pale gold, in little towers, soft as mash, sneeze-bringers and seed-bearers, full of bees and yellow beads and perfect flowerlets and orange butterflies. I don't suppose much notice comes of it, except for honey, and how it heartens the heart with its blank blaze. I don't suppose anything loves it except, perhaps, the rocky voids filled by its dumb dazzle. For myself, I was just passing by, when the wind flared and the blossoms rustled, and the glittering pandemonium leaned on me. I was just minding my own business when I found myself on their straw hillsides, citron and butter-colored, and was happy, and why not? Are not the difficult labors of our lives full of dark hours? And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies? All day on their airy backbones they toss in the wind, they bend as though it was natural and godly to bend, they rise in a stiff sweetness, in the pure peace of giving one's gold away.
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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freecialis.bsky.social
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive. Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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mikebaker.bsky.social
but WashYourHandsingTon is still the GOAT
December 6, 2024 at 2:52 AM
dujietahat.bsky.social
“I hear that the axe has flowered” —Paul Celan
I HEAR THAT THE AXE HAS FLOWERED, I hear that the place can't be named, I hear that the bread which looks at him heals the hanged man, the bread baked for him by his wife, I hear that they call life our only refuge.
December 5, 2024 at 7:23 PM