05.21.2021 - By Cardboard Box Productions, Inc.
Connor and Jack share poetry from Palestinian poets and reflect on the power of poetry as a form of resistance.
Poems shared:
"Resist, My People, Resist Them" by Dareen Tatour: https://arablit.org/2016/04/27/the-poem-for-which-dareen-tatours-under-house-arrest-resist-my-people-resist-them/
"The House Murdered" by Mahmoud Darwish: https://progressive.org/dispatches/the-house-murdered/
"Israelis Let Bulldozers Grind to Halt
—American newspaper headline dropped in our village”
by Naomi Shihab Nye: https://losangelesreview.org/review-tiny-journalist-naomi-shihab-nye/
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