These poems include fragments of translated speech from Palestinian youths who were previously detained by Israeli military forces.

In Sudan, the internet access was cut off. In Tigray, the internet access was cut off. In Gaza, the internet access is being cut off. Have you noticed the stories dwindle?

Bashkin tells the story of Amal/Tivka, a twentieth-century Iraqi Jewish woman.

Khaled Furani’s Silencing the Sea (2012) and Michael Dowdy’s  Broken Souths (2013) bring a global perspective to post-1945 and contemporary traditions of Palestinian and Latina/o poetry.

I remember hearing once that FBI agents who had wiretaps on various mafia operations noted a change in the speaking style of the gangsters they were monitoring after Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather was released in 1972.  The real gangsters began imitating the patois of their film counterparts, thoroughly identifying with their brutal ethos.