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Here We Are: Transcript of Palestinians Bombed With Lights Flickering
Aidan Harper Smith

Ohio Writer


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Source Material:
The source material for the blackout poem is a news article from Democracy Now interviewing actual citizens of Gaza and the West Bank about their current struggles undergoing apartheid violence from Israel.

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Aidan Harper Smith is a poet, essayist, and short story writer from Cleveland, Ohio, who adores whales. He is currently an undergraduate studying Creative Writing and Political Science at Butler University. He hopes to get an MFA that eventually feeds him in this strange world. You can follow him on Instagram @aidanharpersmith or email him at
[email protected]. 

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  • Gordon Square Review
    • Editor's Letter 16
    • Swimming to Mouse Island
    • Steel Mill Stacks
    • Plump Glass Birds
    • When I consider having children I think about frogs
    • Gravity Heat
    • Moth Ghazal
    • Men from the Commons
    • All My Life the God of the Mountain has been Wooing Me
    • Army Specialist Nicholas E. Zimmer Memorial Highway
    • Out on the bar's patio, we learn that the body of another gay man was found in Brooklyn
    • Bruja Business
    • A Sudden Hail of Gunfire, a Wedding and a Dance
    • At the Base of Ausangate
    • Keep Stirring
    • The Diagnosis >
      • Katie Strine
      • Hania Qutub
    • We Will Not Leave Each Other, Never So Long as We Live >
      • Isaiah Hunt
      • Abigail Carlson
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      • Jeanette Beebe 16
      • Cam McGlynn
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