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Join Nightboat & Friends at the second iteration of the Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon.
November 29-30, 2024—beginning at 17:00 Palestinian time. YouTube Link
From the organizers: “A coalition of independent presses, poets, writers, and translators will hold a 24-hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. This annual event is a powerful and moving show of unity – poetry and publishing knows no borders and can speak powerfully for the right to free expression. Poetry bears witness!”
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an anarchist Latinx Jewish artist and poet who is interested in styles of living and telling. They are the author of La Movida (Nightboat Books, 2022) & The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017). They grew up in Tovaangar, occupied & unceded Tongva lands, and are a long term guest in Yelamu, occupied & unceded Ramaytush Ohlone lands.
Edward Salem is the author of Monk Fruit (Nightboat, 2025) and Intifadas (Sarabande, 2026), selected by Hanif Abdurraqib for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His fiction can be found in Granta and BOMB.
Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American poet and editor who lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of the chapbook, Paper and Stick (Tram Editions), which draws from her past human rights and humanitarian work with NGOs such as Defense for Children International – Palestine, Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Arab American Action Network.
Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) at San Francisco State University. A scholar-activist of Lebanese Palestinian descent, Dr. Zahzah is the former Education and Advocacy Coordinator of Eyewitness Palestine. Omar’s book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle is forthcoming from The Censored Press in partnership with Seven Stories Press in 2025.