New poems + interview in Puerto del Sol

Plus a book and film rec on Palestine.

Three of my poems — Lahaina (The Cruel Sun), Monday, the First Bright Day, and “Mount Diablo” — and an interview with me are featured as the October editor’s pick in Puerto del Sol, the long-established magazine published by New Mexico State University. Read the full poems and the interview here.

Recommendations:

The Message — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Penguin Random House (One World), October 1st, 2024

Beyond complex theory and nationalist narrative, Ta-Nehisi Coates gives us a boots-on-the-ground account of his time in Senegal, the American South, and Palestine / Israel. Coates is an excellent storyteller that tells it like it is, and makes the case for the responsibility we all have to do the same.

The Time That Remains (2009) — written and directed by Palestinian actor and filmmaker, Elia Suleiman.

Tragic, satirical, and cinematically brilliant, Elia Suleiman’s film on Palestinian family life beginning with the 1948 Israeli occupation through the early 2000’s is a must-watch, relevant as ever film in these times.