Wrong WindsAhmad Almallah When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words

like the unburied sculpture of the title

But her thoughts also drift back to the rented room she has just left

how to find nuggets of satisfaction in unaccustomed corners

uitgebreide jubileumeditie met stofomslag en leeslint ter gelegenheid van de honderdste geboortedag van de Poolse dichter en Nobelprijswinnaar Wislawa Szymborska

where he fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres

’ indeed

I felt a form of kinship with Nyberg’s concerns

Ed Atkins’ Old Food lurches from allegory to listicle

your shift never ends

they’ll make you want to catch up with them

in “Early Bird”—its dawn chorus

ease and pain