On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion and genocide.
Listen to the podcast version: https://eastisapodcast.libsyn.com/poetry-for-liberation-from-haiti-to-palestine
Donate to CareForGaza, to the family of one of our poetry readers, and to Haitian farmers.
Many thanks to Sina Rahmani and East is a Podcast for giving a platform to the event.
Event program:
1. Sarah AE, Texas and Palestine
“Blankets” by reader
2. Fadi Ennab, Treaty 1 Territory (Manitoba) – Reading live from UWinnipeg Encampment
“Normalize This!” by Remi Kanazi
3. Maha Mehanna, from Gaza, Palestine
“Silence for Gaza” by Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
“If I Must Die” by Refaat Alareer (1979 – 2023)
4. Kai Minosh Pyle, based in Teejop (Madison, WI)
“andobanidaa” by reader
“Giishpin niboyaan” (“If I Must Die”) by Refaat Alareer, translated into Ojibwe by reader
“Just a Bit of History Repeating” by M. Carmen Lane
5. Karim Wafa
“‘elders, settler colonialism, oppression and freedom”
various short poems (untitled)
“child of ancestral spirits”
6. Ladan Osman
“Parable for Refugees”
“Water”
7. Kerry Sinanan, Treaty 1 Territory (Manitoba)
“Tonight we Die as a Family” by Mohammed El-Kurd
“Two Poems” – Adi Magazine by Amany El-Regeb, 16, martyred in Gaza, Oct. 13, 2023 (Translated by Aiya Sakr)
“If we’re still counting days” by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
8. Tré Ventour, Northampton, England
“God Save the People” by reader
“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi
“Internal Affairs” by reader
9. Désha Osborne, Edinburgh
“Moving Towards Home” by June Jordan
“My Hand and the Stone” by Kettly Mars (Translated by Alexander Best)
“Behind the Door” by Kettly Mars (Translated by Alexander Best)
10. Chigbo Anyaduba, Treaty 1 Territory (Manitoba)
“Words Fail” by the reader
“Certitude” by David Diop
11. Aarzoo Singh, Tkaronto, reading live from U of T Encampment
“Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear” by Mosab Abu Toha
“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada
12. Sadeem El Nahhas
“Running Orders” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
“Born on Nakba Day” by Muhammad El-Kurd.
13. Miryam Bujanda, San Antonio, Texas
“Our Loneliness” by Hiba Abu Nada (Translated from Arabic by Salma Harland)
“When the War Parts” by Heba Al-Agha (Translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso)
14. Anel I. Flores, San Antonio, TX
“Seven Skies for the Homeland” by Huda Fakhreddine (Translated by Hiba Abu Nada)
“Language Memory” by leena aboutaleb
15. Zaynab Bobi
“The House as Casualty” by Mahmoud Darwish
“Every Full Stop is a Ceasefire” by reader
“Bunch of Perhaps” by reader
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