Posts by Jorie Graham
"Mr. Netanyahu said in a social-media post that “Israel cherishes and upholds the Jewish values of tolerance and mutual respect between Jews and worshipers of all faiths.”
Of course they do.
Israeli Soldier in Lebanon Sledgehammered a Statue of Jesus www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.
U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
‘The tide of destruction flowed inwards from the perimeter fences, pushing Palestinians into enclaves referred to by the IDF as “safe areas” and “humanitarian zones”, though they were never safe or humane.’
Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza, brick by brick:
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On top of loss of life, Eyal Weizman writes powerfully ⬇️ on how the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer is Israel’s tool of choice in laying waste to Gaza’s human environment & cultural heritage. Shame on Sens @schumer.senate.gov & Kristen Gillibrand for enabling these war crimes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@joriegraham.bsky.social a fantastic reading of one of your To 2040 poems here …. About 20 mins in  podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t... cc @dapowell.bsky.social
"I think at some point a consensus is going to arise—because he’s going to get worse—that he has to go. And I think what has to be done is we have to start talking about that and preparing for that moment when everybody has had enough." trib.al/o6muyYs
I know I am posting from Instagram but sometimes one has to share a cross platforms and there's no other way to do it.
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THEN By Jorie Graham March 16, 2026 Then the full moon rose & filled the windows and I put my arm around you as you slept & I slept alongside you for a while. All around us the world. And in it us neither large nor small. This is the poem where the moonlight will whiten everything & I Will let go of the world as it was
once. It was probably never that way I will think, but its cage wasn't visible then & we thought we were free, we thought there was history in the world— but it was an illusion, wasn't it, it must have been, because otherwise how could it have disappeared so suddenly. But the whiteness is whitening the panes beyond us ever brighter as you sleep, & your sleep, yr kind sleep says no, no, it is all true here
in the poem, says I won't tell you there's freedom anywhere but look at what you hold in your arms for free as the moon rises over the fields without us, as it rises in the eyes of all the watchers in their dens on their branches in the hollows of what were once the sun-warmed furrows farmers cut into the earth when there were farmers. This is drawn from "Killing Spree."
Continuing the thread, here’s “Then” by @joriegraham.bsky.social from the March 23, 2026 New Yorker.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...
Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act will make it harder for women who have changed their names to vote
She’s right. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to vote no on the SAVE America Act.