The title of this collection of poems by the Palestinian-American poet comes from the poet’s first twitter account follow, and the reason for her creating her own twitter handle, Janna Jihad, an (then) eleven year old Palestinian journalist and witness to her people’s oppression at the hands of the Right-led (read here as Netanyahu) Israeli government. The poems then circulate around this tiny observer’s perpsective while also asking leading and damning questions about the exercise of power and oppression on a people. The poems are […]
We would appreciate if you would not….mention the president.
Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye
