Born Sacred : Poems for Palestine 2016 and ways to ignite the

and ways to ignite the empathic imaginations of tomorrow’s teachers

On the phone

so he sent lightning down to strike a tree

McDonnell shows how Europeans often played only a minor role in this history

Born Sacred : Poems for Palestine 2016 and ways to ignite theBy Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac with a foreword by Zaynab Mohammed. In October 2023, upon witnessing the escalation of Palestinian genocide, Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac began writing poems reflecting on the stories of Palestinians in Gaza who were risking their lives to share news of the genocide of Palestinian culture, literature, and life. These 100 poems offer a witnessing of the escalation of colonial violence, both current and historical, across