Shannon Smith-Meekings

Poet and some things 🏳️‍🌈

[Shannon Smith-Meekings @SmithMeekings]

Still wrapping my head around this. Thanks so much to @hollawaynesmith and the @PoetrySociety for including my work in the spring edition of The Poetry Review, as well as printing a quote from one of my poems on the cover AND a Poetry Society tote bag (insanely cool)💙

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Gay marriage is illegal in Israel. As is marriage between religions.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

“My kidnapping is not the story. The story is there is a genocide going on in Gaza and a systematic starvation following a siege and a blockade,” she adds, “There are no words to describe the betrayal of our own governments.”

Greta is humanity & courage.

[birthzay boy! @zayaway]

They burned down his house, killed him and his husband’s dog, showed them the dead dogs skulls, called them homophobic slurs, and then shot them. That’s not a fucking argument and NYPost should feel fucking ashamed to have posted this.

[Shannon Smith-Meekings @SmithMeekings]

So cool to be included in this issue with so many other up and coming poets. Thanks to Sanah for including my poem “In the year before I thought I was in love”

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[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

🔵 Propel Issue Fifteen, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue: https://t.co/K44Yp4DD6L

https://t.co/yqpiWb9Zp2

[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

@youarehasti @SmithMeekings > Rowan Lyster @Rowanlyster
> Zainab Imran @zensaidsummat
> Rose Ramsden
> Marianne Habeshaw
> E.M. Davis
> Rona Luo
> Oli Isaac
> Kit Byford
> Phoebe Gilmore

It's a fab issue we can't wait for you to read!

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[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

With gratitude to each of our wonderful contributors:

> Hasti @youarehasti
> Yousef Alawi
> Liva Jean
> Regina Avendaño
> Jory Garner
> J.J. Carey
> Danny Carlo Pandolfi
> Shannon Smith Meekings @SmithMeekings
> Kate Fenwick
> Alice Weatherley

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[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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[zز 🍒🇵🇸🇪🇸 @z_00pIz]

The fact that Israelis have a special day where they march into Palestinian neighborhoods chanting "Death to Arabs" and "May your village burn", attacking and destroying arab-owned businesses, should tell you everything you need to know about this state and its ideology

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

This is so beyond evil that I don’t even have the words

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Of all the images they could have used to show what happened, they chose a map.

[t y l e r 🌻 @Whytyler_why]

I still can't get over the fact that they spray tanned that woman a darker shade instead of just finding someone indigenous

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

These are the headlines we should be seeing every day in every major media outlet.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

mother's day is a challenging, conflicted one for me, as i'm sure it is for so many. but i can't help but think again of this beautiful poem by Ada Limón—

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Hind rajab - 5 years old - 355 bullets

Never forget.

[Mooseface @MurchescoBucket]

We NEED to start emphasizing to young people that conforming will feel easy and grant you privileges.

When their lives improve because of it they think they revealed their true selves and everyone else can see, when really they just discovered the rules to the oldest game ever