Thank you for your reflection on what poetry can offer in a crisis like the one we're living. As I try to write my way through this time, I need words like these. I'm not sure how I ended up on your list--maybe I sent you a poem that didn't work for you--but I am grateful.
Poetry publishing is one thing (which I'm grateful for) but publishing commentary on world situations is something else. For example, you write about colonization of Palestine by Zionists (read Jews). But Jewish people lived in Israel for millennia. Moses, Joshua, and scores of others including Jesus lived in the Holy Land/Palestine/Israel thousands of years ago. In 1948, after the Holocaust, the United Nations created Israel as a modern nation, though Israel existed long before, as the Bible describes. You write that you want Intifada. Really? so the blood of thousands of Israelis and Palestinations will be on your hands? Think and study before you proclaim.
Thank you for your reflection on what poetry can offer in a crisis like the one we're living. As I try to write my way through this time, I need words like these. I'm not sure how I ended up on your list--maybe I sent you a poem that didn't work for you--but I am grateful.
Susanna Lang
Poetry publishing is one thing (which I'm grateful for) but publishing commentary on world situations is something else. For example, you write about colonization of Palestine by Zionists (read Jews). But Jewish people lived in Israel for millennia. Moses, Joshua, and scores of others including Jesus lived in the Holy Land/Palestine/Israel thousands of years ago. In 1948, after the Holocaust, the United Nations created Israel as a modern nation, though Israel existed long before, as the Bible describes. You write that you want Intifada. Really? so the blood of thousands of Israelis and Palestinations will be on your hands? Think and study before you proclaim.