SM Badawi
@smbadawi.bsky.social
Arab American Poet
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What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English
By Anthony Madrid
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Via @parisreview.bsky.social
By Anthony Madrid
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Via @parisreview.bsky.social
What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English by Anthony Madrid
June 24, 2025 – "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher."
www.theparisreview.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English
By Anthony Madrid
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Via @parisreview.bsky.social
By Anthony Madrid
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Via @parisreview.bsky.social
This class sold out fast 🙏. Waitlist available ✅
May 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This class sold out fast 🙏. Waitlist available ✅
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The most listened to episodes of the last half year.
(in no particular order)
(in no particular order)
May 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The most listened to episodes of the last half year.
(in no particular order)
(in no particular order)
Reading tonight with Mónica Gomery and other luminous poets 💖
brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
Brooklyn Poets Spring Virtual Workshop Showcase — Brooklyn Poets
Join us for our spring Virtual Workshop Showcase on Monday, May 19th, at 7:00 PM (ET) as teachers Monica Gomery, Seth Leeper and Jaz Sufi read from their work and personally introduce r...
brooklynpoets.org
May 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reading tonight with Mónica Gomery and other luminous poets 💖
brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/barzakh/
"Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/barzakh/
Barzakh
You scrub from my throat the darkness that sticks to songs
traveling at the speed of light.
poems.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/barzakh/
"Barzakh" by Fady Joudah, from the March 27, 2025 issue of @nybooks.com.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/barzakh/
Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟
May 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟
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The Trump administration has removed a photograph display honoring the victims of gun violence at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Trump Officials Take Down Memorial to Gun Violence Victims
The display at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, DC, featured portraits of nearly 120 people, including children killed in mass school shootings.
hyperallergic.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Trump administration has removed a photograph display honoring the victims of gun violence at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
From Jenny George’s AFTER IMAGE
May 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
From Jenny George’s AFTER IMAGE
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It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.
May 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.
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Issam Zineh’s UNCEDED LAND “is a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.”
Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
bookshop.org
April 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Issam Zineh’s UNCEDED LAND “is a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.”
Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
Poetry from @triohousepress.bsky.social for your #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and year-round reading: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
Today's class focuses on poems from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social , @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @ralpheeboi.bsky.social 🌟
April 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today's class focuses on poems from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social , @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @ralpheeboi.bsky.social 🌟
Shared this poem with my students today. Offering it here as a meditation on language and possibility. @poetrydaily.bsky.social
poems.com/poem/a-seam-...
poems.com/poem/a-seam-...
A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)
Language is breaking apart in our hands.
poems.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Shared this poem with my students today. Offering it here as a meditation on language and possibility. @poetrydaily.bsky.social
poems.com/poem/a-seam-...
poems.com/poem/a-seam-...
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Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth
Oregon’s Tele-Pome Poetry Telephone is coming back for April’s National Poetry month, thanks to @mojgani.bsky.social and @literaryarts.bsky.social — call 503-928-7008 and you might hear me read a poem to you.
#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #telepome #literaryarts
#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #telepome #literaryarts
April 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth
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"theft can be a shepherd
the sky someone’s steeple
and here the doctrine
that killed Palestinian people"
- SM Badawi in diode poetry
full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
@smbadawi.bsky.social
the sky someone’s steeple
and here the doctrine
that killed Palestinian people"
- SM Badawi in diode poetry
full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
@smbadawi.bsky.social
S.M. Badawi
After seeing the headline “Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers” I sit in the dew dawn of silence prayer against the metal gray hour gray owl to interrupt kingdom so quiet my olives, my olives kin & spray of dirt whoever carries caskets to bear trees shall inherit the kingdom a kingdom and […]
diodepoetry.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"theft can be a shepherd
the sky someone’s steeple
and here the doctrine
that killed Palestinian people"
- SM Badawi in diode poetry
full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
@smbadawi.bsky.social
the sky someone’s steeple
and here the doctrine
that killed Palestinian people"
- SM Badawi in diode poetry
full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/
@smbadawi.bsky.social
I would ask that you consider the doe,
how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with
this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a
bullet makes a trophy of her
how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with
this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a
bullet makes a trophy of her
🚨🚨🚨 NEW POEM ALERT!!!
Excited to share that my poem is featured as Missouri Review’s poem of the week. Check it out here at the link below: missourireview.com/blood-for-bl...
Excited to share that my poem is featured as Missouri Review’s poem of the week. Check it out here at the link below: missourireview.com/blood-for-bl...
“Blood for blood; or, An Answer to the Question of Why There’s So Much Violence In My Poems” by Raphael Jenkins | The Missouri Review
Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
missourireview.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I would ask that you consider the doe,
how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with
this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a
bullet makes a trophy of her
how she lives unaware of the bounty on her crown. How, with
this ignorance, she trots in & out of the crosshair’s stare, until a
bullet makes a trophy of her
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
“Seeking others, Moon Mirrored Indivisible is also a kind of invitation to those who would be my people. And one of the ways we’ll know one another is by our comfort, even entitlement to sensory pleasure in language”
“The MFA nearly stomped out my desire to write.” @faridmatuk.bsky.social in conversation with Poets.org.
Farid Mutak on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Farid Mat…
lithub.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Seeking others, Moon Mirrored Indivisible is also a kind of invitation to those who would be my people. And one of the ways we’ll know one another is by our comfort, even entitlement to sensory pleasure in language”
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new author site: www.faridmatuk.com
FARID MATUK
www.faridmatuk.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
new author site: www.faridmatuk.com
New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social
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March 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"NASA Rover Falls Silent" by Majda Gama (@majda.bsky.social), from the Winter 2023 edition of Prairie Schooner.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/nasa-ro...
"NASA Rover Falls Silent" by Majda Gama (@majda.bsky.social), from the Winter 2023 edition of Prairie Schooner.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/nasa-ro...
NASA Rover Falls Silent
My cat's second eyelid films slowly over one eye
as a vast dust storm envelops Mars.
poems.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We practiced / our answers as if they were prayers; say it /
like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body /
from an empty ceiling.
like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body /
from an empty ceiling.
MFA Poetry Faculty Mahtem Shiferraw's poem "Fire" appears in today's World Literature Today:
I called beloveds between // shifts; we all wept senselessly, never once asking, // endet neh, endet nesh, because grief was grief // regardless of our geographies.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/f...
I called beloveds between // shifts; we all wept senselessly, never once asking, // endet neh, endet nesh, because grief was grief // regardless of our geographies.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/f...
Fire, by Mahtem Shiferraw
“Learn the numbers, // social security number, alien-card number, / street number, none of them mean to explain // this, this thing we have brought with ourselves,” from “Fire,” by Mahtem Shifferaw
worldliteraturetoday.org
March 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We practiced / our answers as if they were prayers; say it /
like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body /
from an empty ceiling.
like English is your first language, and not / the spear that has appended your body /
from an empty ceiling.
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"once, i bled into a bed somewhere off i-25 near belén. back when i spoke the language
of my body even less than i do now,"
This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social
Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh
of my body even less than i do now,"
This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social
Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"once, i bled into a bed somewhere off i-25 near belén. back when i spoke the language
of my body even less than i do now,"
This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social
Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh
of my body even less than i do now,"
This is the beautiful opening to a new poem by contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @rogueagent.bsky.social
Read it here: buff.ly/D7I7tIh
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I received an invitation from PEN America.
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I received an invitation from PEN America.
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response: