Publications

The Poetry of Terrorists and Other Angry Black and Brown People

Anthology (2025) | Lead with Diversity Press

Featuring 3 poems by Ahmed Sarsour:

Crocodile Tears
Soul of the Soul
Staying Silent

In a world where people of colour are too often silenced and labelled, this anthology gathers poets and writers who refuse both. The Poetry of Terrorists and Other Angry Black and Brown People – TPOT – confronts the language used against us and answers with craft, clarity, and courage. These poems and short prose move through anger, yes, but also longing, love, peculiarity, curiosity, and the fantasy; themes of human experiences we all share. Together they show how it feels to live now, across identity, without asking permission to speak.

A portion of every sale supports charities serving children, particularly orphans, impacted by war and genocide, so they too may have a voice.

May these pages offer recognition, spark conversation, and embolden you to raise your voice for yourself, and for the world around you.

R. Y. Abdulrehman, Samantha Turenne, & Anthony Q. Farrell — Editors

Patterns of Return: Poems to Embroider the Revolution

Poetry Anthology (2026) | Art for Palestine Campaign

Featuring Walls, Windows, and a Door by Ahmed Sarsour

From the beginning, Tatreez emerged from the core of this anthology. Its initial stitch pierced the fabric of each poem read. Its rich history of creation in response to destruction, of stitching together separate motifs to tell a story in symbols, parallels the explosion of poetry we have received since October 2023.

These poems and illustrations collectively form patterns of return. Although individual threads, when woven together, they become a living story of exile and longing to go back. The pen leaves the page the way a body leaves the land, or a needle leaves cloth. The pen returns to the page the way a soul does, a thread does. There is no leaving without eventually returning.

The anthology represents diverse voices that encompass the breadth and reach of solidarity with Palestine. There is not only suffering. There is beauty, anger, grief, love, humour and triumphant, defiant hope.

Every purchase supports real art and real artists. Your support helps provide artist honoraria, expand art education, and sustain cultural projects that keep creativity and storytelling at the center of this community!