Ruth Awad 🇵🇸

This is the longest I’ve ever kept a secret. Don’t mind me while I update my bio. Congratulations to my fellow @NEAarts poetry fellows!

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children. Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024. Blessings to the graves of my grandparents who I will never find. Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food or firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023. Blessings to many more, many more. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE! 🍓🍓🍓🍓

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

If you’re a professor at Columbia or NYU—tenured or otherwise—it is so important that you continue to voice your outrage at the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech. If you haven’t spoken up yet, now is the time. This fight is being lost.

Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide UN Report: Israel is committing genocide Genocide Scholars: Israel is committing genocide Biden: Here’s another $8,000,000,000 for Israel Democrats: Biden is a decent man

Don't recall ever holding a book and feeling an immediate surge of tears. A narrator of Palestine, of an unfathomable loss that ultimately snatched him away from us too.

I can think of no more perfect image to encapsulate the modern Democratic Party than this sundowning butcher, this lamest of lame ducks, doddering out of the rose garden to press the KILL MORE PALESTINIANS button for the 100th time like it’s a morphine pump in a hospice.

“More children have been killed in Gaza in 6 months than the total number of children killed in all other war zones worldwide over 3 years, multiplied by 4.” “Do you hear what I’m saying?” —Norman Finkelstein

Merry Christmas from Palestine 🇵🇸

Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.

The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.' Solmaz Sharif

Y’all I—

@deesoulpoetry @WaxwingMag ❤️❤️❤️ glad to be in your company!! Congratulations!

Grateful for this nom from @WaxwingMag !! Also got to see @RuthAwad read very recently and she was terrific

@WaxwingMag ❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you for your support, Waxwing editors!

So late on this but…. Thrilled to announce our BOTN nominations!

@gisselleyepes Me to Indiana:

maybe my favorite thing about meeting @RuthAwad was everything!!! her poems!!! her reading of poems, my goodness!!! but also, it was both of us seriously being like…now wtf is indiana

It’s not okay to murder Arab men either, by the way.

@colonellovely About to ruin friendships

this is fucked up

and you’ll heavy the whining floorboards of the house you filled with animals as hurt and lost as you, and the bearded irises will form —#PoetoftheWeek @RuthAwad reads her feature poem "Reasons to Live" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…