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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
I’m a poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. I live in Cambridge, MA. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. FORTHCOMING: HOME OUT THERE.
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Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”

I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times
Magazine.
The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts everything grows smaller and harder from from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more g
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Boyer probably knew what was headed her way. The NYT forced staff reporter Jazmine Hughes to resign because Hughes signed an open letter that was circulating among journalists, which denounced Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

New York Times writer forced to resign after opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza
New York Times writer forced to resign after opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza

Jazmine Hughes was forced out by <em>Times Magazine</em> editor Jake Silverstein, the architect of the discredited 1619 Project.

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Cpropcazhpm.bsky.social

Integrity.

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Pforevernever.bsky.social

this is brilliant. thanks for sharing.

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Jbarnat4.bsky.social

Integrity ✔️

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EMelliemaybe.bsky.social

Leave it to a poet to so succinctly drop the damn mic.

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FAbemoredc.bsky.social

Based

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LDlisadiedrich.bsky.social

A powerful reminder of what poetry can & should do.

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Ddanimadu.bsky.social

What a beautifully sad and powerful text. I applaud her.

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SCsnarkysteff.bsky.social

Wow, that’s a letter.

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MAmeakin.bsky.social

That last line!

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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
I’m a poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. I live in Cambridge, MA. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. FORTHCOMING: HOME OUT THERE.
48k followers1.4k following11.5k posts