Poet and Penn State Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature Gabeba Baderoon has shared the following call for poems about Gaza–

Several faculty members at Penn State have created a project to gather poems about Gaza in the words of Gazans. We ourselves are turning to poetry for comfort and a sense of justice and beauty in the face of devastating violence, and we plan to create a website with music and audio recordings of poems read by Palestinians. We think poetry and art are ways to fight the dehumanization, erasure and blatant justification of violence in many portrayals of Palestine, and to show the full and deep humanity of the people of that land.

Please share any poems (in written, audio or video form) by Palestinians via the link provided below by February 16.

There is also a growing genre of art (including poetry) being created in solidarity with Gaza. This is a secondary part of our project and if you encounter any examples of these, please also share them.