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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Jun 25

What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English
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

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 29

This class sold out fast 🙏. Waitlist available ✅

Poetics of place
June 26- July 17
Thursdays on Zoom
6-7:50 pm PST
instructor: Sally Badawi

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · May 27

The most listened to episodes of the last half year.
(in no particular order)

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 19

Reading tonight with Mónica Gomery and other luminous poets 💖
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...

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 9

Crimson clover ♥️

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · May 8

Today's Featured Poem:

"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

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 8

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · May 6

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

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 5

From Jenny George’s AFTER IMAGE

You become Not-You.
A postcard of snow.
They tell me you
are at “rest.”
In the window’s cold
rectangle: a rose arbor
shipwrecked in a white field.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · May 2

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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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Apr 25

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...

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today's class focuses on poems from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social , @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @ralpheeboi.bsky.social 🌟

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Apr 9

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-...

A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)

Language is breaking apart in our hands.

poems.com

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

Text reads “Be presented with the quiet and unseen mysteries you have been carrying” as a whimsical drawing of a person carrying a coffin and a ghost converse across a blue starlit sky.

The rest of the text is in the post, except “new poems daily through April.”

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Thank you for reading, Chiara 🤍

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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · Apr 7

"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/
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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 […]

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Love this poem!

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨🚨🚨 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...

“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

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · Mar 24

“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”