FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 11, 2025
Press Contact: David Sole 313-680-5508
Announcing the publication of
‘For the baby ancestors in Gaza‘ a volume of poetry by Julia Wright
Detroit, MI: Fighting-Words and its publishing team are proud to present a volume of poetry by Julia Wright titled For the baby ancestors in Gaza and other poems. Ms. Wright writes in her Introduction “Then came October 7 and the genocidal months over two years of writing near daily poems for Palestine, as if I was keeping a journal and as if the least I could do was to give CPR at a distance.”
Julia Wright is the elder daughter of the late African American novelist, journalist and poet, Richard Wright. She is a descendant of the survivors of the 1919 Elaine Massacre through her lynched great uncle, Silas Hoskins. A Pan Africanist, she served under Kwame Nkrumah until the CIA-abetted coup d’etat in Ghana in 1966. She subsequently worked with James Forman in SNCC and went on to attend the first cultural Pan African Festival in Algiers alongside Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party. In Paris, France, she cofounded, in 1995, Wednesday rallies for political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, that are still ongoing.
The Foreword to Ms. Wright’s book of poems is by Yousef M. Aljamal, editor of If I Must Die and executor of the papers of Refaat Alareer, poet and teacher targeted and murdered in Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
This 68-page volume contains 29 poems and sells for $5 plus $3 for shipping per volume. It can be ordered via email to moratorium@moratorium-mi.org. CashApp payments can be made to $MoratoriumNow1 or checks can be sent to Moratorium Now Coalition, 5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.
“Julia’s poems have been a reflection of the tragedy and the beauty, the desecration and the joy of this moment – connecting … each of us, no matter where we are in the world, to Palestine and the Palestinian people.”
– Douglass digs DeCandia, abolitionist poet and farmer, Spirit of Mandela coalition
“Julia Wright once again makes an enormous cultural contribution to the struggle against imperialism in Palestine and around the world.” – Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire
“… receiving your poems daily as the genocide rages on; as the sadness, horror, and feelings of helplessness continue; as the extraordinary Palestinian sumud endures; and as each day dawns, finding a place in your poems to be with all of that…” – Verbena Lea, organizer, Detroit Jericho, Peoples’ Senate
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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