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This account does not belong to a poet, education worker, or scholar. Who'd want to read Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean, 2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak, 2024) and etc? Garbage, labor obsessed.
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Democratic leadership still doesn't think any of these things matter enough for them to act: genocide, gender pogroms, military and military style raids of minority communities, ICE concentration camps, shooting poets in the face.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Liberal imperialism is opposing unilateral war making powers but not touching the sanctions regimes that collectively punish entire peoples, leave them struggling to feed themselves day in day out. We'll see if they even question legitimacy of putting M on trial in U.S.
January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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From PYM statement, "From Minneapolis to Palestine": "ICE not only shot Good: they blocked the area off, refused entry to a physician on scene. and prevented ambulances from reaching her." 1/2
ICE not only shot Good: they blocked the area off, refused entry to a physician on scene. and prevented ambulances from reaching her. Agents were later seen transporting her body to an unknown destination. For Palestinians, ICE's tactics at the scene recall IOF raids in the West Bank, where the IOF routinely block ambulances and physicians from reaching Palestinians they have shot, then abduct the body after they die
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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baseline demand
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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In three weeks in Buffalo
Book Palestine Series Wed Discussion Jan. 21 7:00pm Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street scan for more info SAHAR KHALIFEH Passage to the Plaza TRANSLATED BY SAWAD HUSSAIN JVP BUFFALO https://burningbooks.com/products/passage-to-the-plaza
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
A poem in two columns: 2025 It is the air of atrocity -George Oppen, "Of Being Numerous," Section 18 the tree thick w/cherries half shading And if missile blowing holes in Haifa thyme, oregano, weeps red sap in the heat s foxglove sheds its pink, freckled slippers, begins to swell with its tachycardia inducing seed as a rooster crows from an undisclosed location in the neighborhood & bees crawl whole-bodied into the blossoms as the lime leaves of the straggling rose, an astringent, sweet bloom above the unravelling peonies while the pear leaves of the paw paw sapling begin oil refinery may be a step to saving lives & if getting bolt cutters is way to shutting down the concentration camp they're setting up off the freeway 600 Colvin Road & if 3,000 arrests a day is a million a year is ethnic cleansing & if they starved & beat inmates & inmates seized their own lives & set themselves on fire before the reign of terror & if you want to do more than hold a sign, signify, but don't know where to start & if the cops won't give you a police report & step on the December 16, 2025 2 POEMS Joe Hall 2025 There is nobody here but us chickens -George Oppen, "Of Being Numerous," Section 17 The red, the gout, the condensed fury & labor, spraying out, my transmission was melting down; I felt watched, my students were doxed vomit gushed in great gasping heaves from every digital slot C eats the first apple from K's orchard, just a few feet from the sidewalk ove! the wood chips wounded by the electric company, cream flesh stipled green, summer wasn't over--& the year felt washed
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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somehow just watched The Thing for the first time ever and now understand everything through the following very apt lens:
spider head and human head
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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it's getting real
picture of print outs of poetry manuscript - Buffalo Free Rapid Transit with knock-off muji pen
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Democratic semi-sentient bag of AIPAC $s Rep. Tim Kennedy making an appearance in his district Sept 20. TK recently unveiled his first major piece of legislation to beef up the federal deportation machine currently terrorizing our communities. He wants thousands of new Border Patrol agents.
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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USAFA stands for United States Air Force Academy. I don't think the scandal is where this writer thinks it is.
Paisley Rekdal 5h • I just learned from a reporter and the USAFA speaker's series donor that the reason my talk was canceled was because the supervisor did a search of my social media accounts and discovered said critical things about Trump. So that's the reason. have many, many things to say about this, and I'll be writing them soon. In the meantime, read this now sadly evergreen poem: poets.org 19 :01 130 POETS.ORG Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, 31 comments 9 shares Share Comment & Like
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Here's the cover of the zine we made to expose Moog's links to genocide. #Buffalo
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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There's a lot of reason for despair right now and I gotta let you know that's not what this new poem in the Bennington Review is about, but it is about mortality, what a sudden piercing awareness of it made adhere.
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THE GREAT BEYOND, AGAIN Who counts these hours? I know even before a browser in the cold inlay of disgust time pours into capsules. Cheryl, you walked across the flooded path in your green We fell in behind a dad smoking a joint, taking videos of his rambling kids. Later you turned to me and said, "We're going to die." The swan's neck leafing into a plant beside window, your celery, sardines, and lentils depend on your hours being counted as pay, walking the territory of sleep beside each other, looking at the red eye blinking away over the city, Buffalo, from any window. Who counts the time that can't be counted?
August 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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who killed anyone you mother fuckers
Israel-Gaza war Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation California Farm worker dies a day after chaotic immigration raid at California farm Jaime Alanis died after sustaining injuries during raid where authorities say they arrested about 200 people
July 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Yesterday house burned down down the block, mayoral election. Cop-lovingest candidate lost. " Turnout was 26,368 votes — roughly 27 percent of enrolled Democrats...a pretty sorry showing for the first open race for Buffalo mayor in 20 years." Despair in this system for a lot of good reasons.
Votes 9,278 12,249 632 2,136 2,023 8:02:55 AM % 35 47 2 8 Christopher P. Scanlon Sean M. Ryan Anthony J.P. Tyson-Thompson Garnell Whitfield Jr. Rasheed N.C. Wyatt Updated: Get the data • Created with Datawrapper
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🚽🔥💩 summer of ephemera (nothing might exist soon!): here's a 12'-ish scroll of my dank, excreta-full poems w/ enclosure of bathrooms, imperialism as waste (thx A. Kadri), Paul Hollywood, & sealing hell's mouth in Paradise Lost // Blue Bag Press, printed by betweenthehighway
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SHIT SLIPS JOE HALL image of receipt tape poems with drawing of void / sphincter
June 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The Israeli public also overwhelmingly supports genocide. The conclusions drawn from 'popular support' of WWIII shouldn't be grudging acceptance to dropping bombs but something far more startling.

It shouldn't be watching the show & checking the polls, it should be the fire of organizing.
~ ANALYSIS Israeli public united in mission to halt Iran's nuclear programme Israeli affairs analyst Dan Perry says the public is largely united behind efforts to target Iran's nuclear infrastructure, viewing it as a rare point of national consen- suS. "There definitely is trepidation and understanding that Iran has capabilities that are far beyond what Israel has experienced from the Houthis and even Hezbollah,' Perry told Al Jazeera. Despite the losses, Perry described the prevailing sentiment in Israel as one of "cautious optimism about success in a mission that enjoys consensus". "Israelis don't agree on much but that Iran's Islamic Republic government should not have a nuclear weapon is perhaps the only thing to make them come around."
June 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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can't wait to get into this issue of Hammer & Hope-- steady, radical light in this tumult. hammerandhope.org
FREEDOM NoW! WHITE SUPREMACY IS APOCALYPTIC FOR EVERYONE HAMMER & HOPE Across the world, the right wing is blowing up everything and incinerating the planet.
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Still hearing Notley's protean voices from her reading in Buffalo. There won't be another. Went looking for older Buffalo connections and came up with...this?
A Poet's Touch... "JUST BUFFALO", Allentown's popule poetry reading forum, featured the charismatic Anselm Hollo and placid Alice Notley at its first reading of the season two weeks ag0. Both were received warmly by an audience of devoted followers, numbering approxi- mately 75 by unofficial estimate of coordinator Debora Daley, who began the series four known far and wide [Hollo from New York and Finland, Notley from Rochester] but features local poets as well. Last weekend's reading brought Joanne Kyger. Shown above at the Allentown Community Center are Debora Daley, Alice Notley, and Anselm Hollo. years ago. The series commissions poetsy --Niagara News Staff Photo
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Can't believe jet from Qatar ended up as the stupidly late line in the sand for Senate leadership to jam up the works & not evisceration of numerous government agencies that make life suck less. The national security concern = cherry on top. Throne of skulls senator objects on imperialist grounds!
20m ago 11.02 EDT Schumer to place hold on Trump DOJ nominees over Qatarijet Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said he is placing a blanket hold on all justice department nominees in response to Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400m luxury jet as a gift from Qatar's royal family. It is the first time Schumer has ever placed a blanket hold on a set of presidential nominees, and he intends to keep the hold in place until the Trump administration answers his questions about the jet. Schumer, on the Senate floor this morning, described the gift as "not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat." . Until the American people learn the truth about this deal. I will do my part to block the galling and truly breathtaking politicization at the Department of Justice. Trump's business deals in the Middle East "reek of crooked self-enrichment," Schumer went on. 11 He isn't just blurring the line between public service and personal profit • he's erasing it. Share Updated at 11.05 EDT
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Yarn apple! Best end of the year present.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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& wrote this one in homage to those fighting the most necessary fights & those who will , wrote it also as in effort towards self-accountability, trying to last
UNTITLED if guerilla war must be fought if for gratuitous wrong piled on gratuitous wrong, there must be accountability in this city, if in this hour in all wild fields, falls' stems give way against your shins if you don't wait for the law w/infinite patience
May 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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wrote this one against poets publishing in g*******e denying publications, gladly giving their poetry to fig-leaf empire at a moment of its grossest excess
AT A SPEED TO SLIP OVER WAVES A DRONE DESIGNED F Dear Matthew Zapruder, NE DESIGNED TRIANGLE POINTING DOWN Li-Young Lee, there are several reasons a bomb-wc Merwin, Natasha Rao, tated baby is baby is sad, there are several RIPPED TANKS BULLDOZERS TOWARD A HOSPITAL, TARANTINO SCRIPT ABOUT A IN THIS FIRE SCATTERING ZII why doctors raped to death is sad. there are several "THE SOURCES OF PROFIT CC pieces criticizing the idea /ERY ACT OF LIQUIDATING HUMAN LIFE. SALE" - ALI KADRI the oppressor. there are several things the feelings are cousins to. NAVY SEALS SINKING LIKE S' MARTYRED AND MISSING. 28, there are several reasons to distrust border, as a prison guard v any of the 100,000 catharsis. there are several reasons GHASSAN KANAFANI NEVER Middle East, guarding the T DARWISH'S IDENTITY CARD / ENGINEERING NEEDLES INT SILVER FUSELAGE into genocide. there are several reasons they are making war BOMBS STOCK SHELVES W/B. TWEETS IRAN IRAN IRAN /0 Goldberg, EIC of The MEANS KILL ONE WAY NOW, Atlantic. A PINK-RED Kevin Young, Peter Gizzi, W.S. Forest Gander, Chaun veral reasons Ballard, Rosa Alcala, Victoria Chang, Diane TRAJECTORY Suess, & Rae 'ING TO HOLD ON / NO Armantrout, IS BORN Congratulations on the acceptance of your poem elings. such as joy in The Atlantic. It will be tion of published alongside of settler-colonialism and , THE WASTED LIFE ITSELF IS ON diminishing the number of Palestinian dead. On a personal note, I'm from rging through us all the South Shore of Long nce CEO got dropped. Island and then all of the F ADEN / DAY 128: 35,176 sudden I'm in the Negev SIES HAVE REACHES HOSPITALS Desert, by the Egyptian- in what's probably the ould turn war largest prison in the future leaders of OLE LIFE WATER- INTO A Palestine. It was pretty exciting. Did torture locide. there are several reasons anyone? I'11 leave that to your imagination. the reasons is never enough. Respectfully, Jeffrey OF PARADES WHILE PEN AMERICA R'S MOUTH, CEASEFIRE ! NEWS CYCLE OR TWO 1111
May 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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reading in Buffalo on Thursday w/Daisy Atterbury. lots of garbage, lots of rage, lots of bruises.
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Disgusting statement from University at Buffalo criminalizing the students persecuted by state, targeted for deportation via visa revocation. Particularly gross given this is after first wave of visa revocation where it was clear the state's reasoning was bullshit. www.buffalo.edu/news/release...
leave the country as they are now out of status. While it is unclear a* this time the exact reason for each visa revocation and status termination, the actions appear to be consistent with o recent change in enforcement approach by the U.S. State Department, which recently stated that it will have zero tolerance for noncitizens, including student visa holders, who violate U.S. laws, indicating that visa holders who break the law may face status termination.
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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How teaching letterpress is going
April 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM