🇵🇸‼️ OPEN CALL: POETRY FOR PALESTINE

📧 Submit to: info@againstapartheid.art with the subject line ‘poetry call’ | Deadline: May 30, 2025

We welcome submissions that center solidarity with Palestine, that speak with outrage against the atrocities of the last 17 months, and that call for the full liberation of Palestine!

In the vibrant spirit of revolutionary struggle and solidarity, we call upon poets and all people of conscience to submit poems dedicated to the liberation of Palestine and which stand with the students in the US facing threats of deportation and all those facing repression for demanding the end to the genocide.

As the US & Israel continue their brutal assault, the people’s poetry must speak loudly and clearly. We seek poetry that fights, that dreams, that mourns, that calls people to action — poetry that affirms the indestructible will of the Palestinian people to be free.

Poetry has always been a tool of resistance. From the defiant verses of apartheid South African freedom fighters, to the writing in solidarity with Vietnam, to the lyrical poetry of the Cuban revolution, to the unbreakable words of Palestinian poets under occupation — the poets have always borne the responsibility of bolstering revolutionary spirit.

We, as Artists Against Apartheid, know that poetry is never a neutral terrain. It is up to writers to stand on the right side of history, to bolster popular imagination of revolutionary ruptures, to make collective art that is deeply tied to the movement and that will fill the pages of history with our resounding call for justice.

Poems will be used for materials made by Artists Against Apartheid which could include use in digital materials on our website and print materials like protest placards, newsprint, booklets, banners, etc. Poet’s work that is published will be credited as a part of their submission to this call.

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