Spring 2026 Special Issue
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
A Special Teaching Issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
Welcome to the Special Issue
The Dodge calls attention to Palestine as an environmental issue—an occupation of air, water, and land; a forced removal and genocide of its Indigenous population; an irreversible damage to its natural landscape and resources; a violent erasure of its ancestral villages; a persistent violation, exploitation, and continued harm to its wellbeing and ecology at large.
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
Sara Abou Rashed
Sara Abou Rashed
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Return to Roots:
Writing Toward Land
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Marlo Starr
Editor in Chief
Marlo Starr is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster. Her poems have appeared in The Shore, The Hopkins Review, The Threepenny Review, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. She affirms the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Marlo Starr
Editor in Chief
Marlo Starr is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster. Her poems have appeared in The Shore, The Hopkins Review, The Threepenny Review, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. She affirms the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Marlo Starr
Editor in Chief
Marlo Starr is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster. Her poems have appeared in The Shore, The Hopkins Review, The Threepenny Review, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. She affirms the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Marlo Starr
Editor in Chief
Marlo Starr is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster. Her poems have appeared in The Shore, The Hopkins Review, The Threepenny Review, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. She affirms the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
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If I had entered into an animal cell, I might have found myself profoundly confined, abiding by the strict rules of inner and outer, organelles bolted to the floor?
The ocean refluxes into the river. Is it, then, still a river? Or is it a brackish finger probing into the landscape? I squint, as if trying to mark the spot in the water where opposed currents intertwine like the snakes of the caduceus. The water surface, spangled with willow frond reflections, keeps its secret. But at my feet I spot something else: the velveteen dome of a mower’s mushroom pokes up from the grass. I bend down, noticing how the diminutive parasol structure disappears into the fine-grained soil.
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[1] I am going
[2] Why? Why are you going? Note: repetition unusual in Shawnee, influence of English apparent
[3] Fragment of phrase to indicate want/desire/need/hunger
[4] See above
[5] I don’t know my place
