poet. he/him
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I'm honored to announce that I'm going to be a Stegner Fellow! I'm so excited and nervous and grateful.
Dāshaun Washington retweeted
Bombing and shooting is not the only way to commit a genocide.
This is genocide too.
Warehouses filled with vital aid for Gaza have been blocked by Israel, despite the ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid. The UNRWA has criticised Israel as Palestinians face heavy rain and cold weather amid the rubble
🔗Read more: trib.al/OlxacQl
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The genocide has just gone quieter, slower, more insidious. It has not stopped. Nor should we stop opposing it!
Channel 4 News is inside one of many warehouses filled with tonnes of aid that the Israeli authorities are not letting through to Gaza.
It's estimated that there is enough aid for 150 trucks per day, five days per week for three months to help Palestinians.
We have reached out to the Israeli government for a response.
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Half-light by Dāshaun Washington - Poems | Academy of American Poets @POETSorg poets.org/poem/half-light-0
Thank you @BarotRick for selecting my poem "Half-light" for this month's curation of Poem-a-Day! Please read here: poets.org/poem/half-light-0
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Have you listened to “Half-light” by Dāshaun Washington on our daily #PoemADay podcast?
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Daily massacres are not normal. This is genocide.
BREAKING: At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ukxcfz
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Preeti Vangani and I will be hosting a @Litquake National Poetry Month reading and celebration at @GraceCathedral in San Francisco on Wednesday, 23 April at 7pm.
Come hear poets Maw Shein Win, Rachel Richardson, Armen Davoudian and Matthew Zapruder.
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Sign up here!
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p…
At @BrooklynPoets I’m teaching a 6-week workshop organized around the 5 Universal Rhythms: Legato, Staccato, Chaos, Stillness and Lyrical.
We’ll find inspiration in dance, music, visual art, and of course poems—and we’ll write a poem a week!
Sign up:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p…
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I wish I could be shouting this news from the rooftops. Instead, from the boring but cozy confines of my sickness bed, I am so freaking thrilled to share that my work of four years, my next book of poems, FIFTY MOTHERS will be published by @riverriverbooks in February 26!
Congratulations to our four new authors—Jameela Fay Dallis, E.G. Cunningham, Preeti Vangani, and Elane Kim! Their books are coming to you in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026…read more below!
riverriverbooks.org/
ALT RIVER RIVER BOOKS SUMMER 2024 SELECTIONS Fall 2025 Field Notes by E.G. Cunningham Encounters for the Living and the Dead by Jameela Fay Dallis Spring 2026 Antibody by Elane Kim Fifty Mothers by Preeti Vangani
That's my baby! Much congratulations @adedayoagarau!
I am excited to announce that The Years of Blood has been selected for the Poetic Justice Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer. I am grateful to Elisabeth Frost and JoAnne McFarland for selecting the book in November 2023. I am also super grateful to @remicawriter, whose mentorship and editorial brilliance opened all the doors for the growth of this manuscript.
Dear world, I have a book coming.
Thank you for covering the story, @OpenCountryMag.
opencountrymag.com/adedayo-a…
Dāshaun Washington retweeted
can poets please stop publishing work in the atlantic now? what more will it take?
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This is not just news, this is LITERALLY HAPPENING.. My friend in Gaza City says she cannot find anything to feed her infant, she says a large portion of her day is wasted just thinking how she can be creative to find alternatives to keep her baby alive, dear world!!!
🆘REMINDER: While goods are allowed into southern #Gaza under severe Israeli restrictions, the northern parts of Gaza are facing yet another starvation catastrophe as Israel continues to ban aid into the city & its north.
There isn't much time left until we lose more infants!
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The problem with @PENamerica is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!
Today, we released an open letter with over 135 writers, artists, and human rights defenders to express our collective condemnation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, a campaign of violence rooted in the erasure of Ukrainian culture.
Read here: pen.org/open-letter-in-solid…
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“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison
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There’s a difference between holding someone accountable and becoming a carceral agent who wants to be branded as an upright person.
