Chicago artist's poetry read on radio station near Gaza
CHICAGO – At midnight, just under 50 miles from the ongoing bombardment in Gaza, the words of a Chicago poet, along with the work of other Palestinian-Americans and artists in solidarity, played on a radio station in Bethlehem. 'Every day has felt like a different kind of trauma response,' read George Abraham, a Chicagoan and Palestinian American writer and executive editor of the journal Mizna.
'Everything is well in the new meaning of well, not starving, with relatively less intensive bombing,' she read. Her cousins spend the days trying to look for food and water in Gaza. 'They walked back empty-handed, but they have really matured, mashallah ,' her mother said to her. 'They're still trying to look on the bright side,' Ahmad said. The mix oscillates between calm and peace and tumult and difficulty. 'I wanted all of it to be there.
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