On Sunday, Poetry Daily re-published my poem “The Wound” from Fugue & Strike. Thank you, Poetry Daily. Here’s a statement I wrote on the poem:

“The Wound” references the creative, successful organizing to remove racist developer Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education. This included bringing meetings to a standstill with song. It responds to the refrain of a reactionary at a Richard Spencer talk at the University at Buffalo (gloriously disrupted): “burn it all down.” In form it follows Octavio Paz’s “The Wound” and shares the title of a great Jay Besemer poem.

This poem would be nothing without the organizers and friends who did what they did and wanted me to know about it, many of which are continuing to take disruptive action in response to Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as well as their assault on southern Lebanon—a genocide armed and funded by the U.S.

The war machine: shut it down.

This poem is nothing without you.