Hey. We're reading Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, but this week we're taking a short break to let us read a couple of other pieces (or, like, whatever you want)

what I'm reading

This week I'm reading a couple of pieces, and thinking about sometime this week to listen to the podcast together:

• "The Invaders" by Séamus Malekafzali for Equator
• "Cop Cities Mock Cities" by Stuart Schrader for The Los Angeles Review of Books
• "Reservoir Hogs" by Christopher Ketcham for The Baffler
• "Mike Davis, the Trucker and Meatcutter Turned Marxist Legend" on the 'Time to Say Goodbye' podcast

I'll email sometime this week to announce a co-listening session for the podcast, so keep an eye out for that email, but don't sweat it if you can't join us.

buy the book, support The Sameer Project

If you haven't bought it yet, please consider placing your order here at Open Books: A Poem Emporium. W4G-tagged books on the Open Poetry bookstore send proceeds to The Sameer Project, one of the only organizations still on the ground in Gaza, and struggling to continue to meet the needs of Palestinians.

If you can't buy from the bookstore, please consider making a donation directly to one of the Sameer Project's campaigns, or consider sharing a fundraiser with friends. If you can't do any of that, consider sharing the reading group with some friends; if some of them can buy the book from Open Books, or even make direct donations to The Sameer Project, then that would help enormously.

info on the format

On Mondays, I email with what we're reading this week from the book, and also point to some other thing you can read (or listen to, or watch) to go along with it. I'll try to make sure the readings are either relevant to that week's readings from the book, or maybe just relevant to our current circumstances in the world.

On Saturdays, I'll send an email at about 11AM ET. It'll mostly serve as a reminder that we're going to meet if you'd like to join us, but I'll also include an icebreaker question to potentially get the conversation going when you arrive at 5p ET.

schedule

Here's my reading plan for the next few weeks.

That's all for now; stay safe this week, and we'll talk Saturday.