Grab your copy of Smothermoss by Alisa Alering here.

The New York Times Tower, or “the Glasshouse,” in Manhattan has been the heart of the U.S. movement on journalistic integrity and reporting when lives are at stake. Journalists in the Writers Bloc and members of the Writers Against the War on Gaza organization are calling out the company’s appalling coverage of the siege of Palestine and Israel’s occupation.

my words are a predestined manifesto
not ones that were written in stars
ones that were carved in stone

She asks with sincerity. Her body curled on the chair like she needs to protect her body from even the invocation of the H-word at her dining table.

You have to not
think about whose blood it is
dressing your route home

Your body is the world,

Mountains and valleys.