Remi Kanazi is a poet, writer, and organizer based in New York City. He is the author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine and Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine, and the editor of Poets For Palestine. His political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world, including Salon, Al Jazeera English, and BBC Radio. Kanazi has toured hundreds of venues across the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, and he has appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a Lannan Residency Fellow and an Advisory Committee member for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.