Majda Gama

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Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com

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"will words blossom in my throat
to write a new anthem
for my country"

I earmarked so many poems in Zeina Azzam's SOME THINGS NEVER LEAVE YOU [these poems won't either I promise] (Tiger Bark Press, 2023)!
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#poetry 📚💙

The book resting on crossed legs: the cover features collaged patterns of subdued reds, dark blues, and whites, some star patterns and stitch patterns are recognizable. The art is by Samar Hussaini, "Narrative of Belonging," 2020, acrylic paint, ink, charcoal, image transfer, and thread on canvas.In My Small Sky (A poem inspired by a painting of Egyptian feminist and artist Inji Efflatoun, titled "Dreams of the Detainee") [the poem is in left/right alternating blocks of text] If I reach outside these bars will my arm find freedom will my palm pretend-float on my breath like a lark, a wave in my small sky If I think deeply about you in your cell will our visions of open chains interweave will two threads mesh as a coiling helix, an embrace If I chew this stale bread long enough, will its taste conjure the wheat fields and farmers in my village, bending sunward from rising to setting guided by toil and light If I pull the pins from my hair will that feeling of lightness cascade down my back wash over me like a waterfall clear, unfettered escaping the riverIf I gaze hard at the faraway wall will my eyes re-learn how to focus beyond the bars, strain to see more than dirt, stains, rats, gray water, a scab remember a generous cloud If I turn away from my jailer will jasmine from my garden visit me will I plant it behind my ear will words blossom in my throat to write a new anthem for my country
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question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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Not suspicious--just par for the course. We're just on our own. People will talk about protests in France, etc but Indian protests are just not even registering for them.

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I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bessent: "As the president has said, he doesn't expect kinetic engagement until at least after the midterms"

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Twice he's asked about the risk of creating a martyr. Twice his answer is "no one has to watch it." Which is, obviously, not remotely an answer to the question.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values

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A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, officials said. n.pr/4B1yUOK

n.prPassenger terminal at Riyadh airport is struck again, a day after 12 were killedA projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, officials said.
@majda.bsky.social

Bonkers that this is happening in the bluer parts of the state, what are Democrats doing up there? Also, what happened to the environmental wing of the Democratic Party? I live one county over and this is so infuriating.

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"You're a NIMBY about AI data centers!" Actually I'm a NOMP (Not On My Planet) about privately-owned fixed-location infrastructure externalizing the cost of burning hydrocarbons for energy. If they had to pay what this really costs society in health and climate harms, they wouldn't do it.

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Please check a reliable source re urban wildlife. If you see, for example, a "baby" opossum and think it has been abandoned, just know that unless it is really tiny--less than 7 or 8 inches long-- the baby is old enough to forage by itself and no intervention is needed.

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