Thank you IALA for supporting our growing global community of writers!

“Mother Are You There?” By Mary Basmadjian (one woman show)
“New York Trilogy” by Peter Balakian (poetry)
“Motherload” by Jennifer Berry (film)
“The Split Pomegranate” by Melineh Yemenidjian (poetry)

“The Threesome” by Ethan Ogilby (film)
“Waterline” by Aram Mrjoian (novel)
“Late to the Search Party” by Steven Espada Dawson (poetry)
“Saltwater Demands a Psalm” by Kweku Abimbola

I sincerely appreciate everyone who has offered their support, collaboration, considerations, questions, and guidance. You all inspire me.

Thank you as well to the Academy for sharing with their beautiful community my poems, “How To Orchestrate A Genocide” and “ERASURE: George W Bush Address on Signing the USA Patriot Act.”

About our local project: San Gabriel Valley Phoenix Poets champions and celebrates the authentic self-expression of individuals and groups impacted by the Eaton Fire of January 2025. To learn more, please visit www.sgvphoenixpoets.org

we must exercise our endangered rights to speak up, raise our voices, and articulate our observations and experiences in this disturbing period of widespread gaslighting and historical revisionism.

This might seem like stating the obvious, but at a time when the extremist central governments of Azerbaijan, Israel, and the U.S. are perpetrating genocide with impunity, silencing those who suggest otherwise, and distorting the narrative,