A Conversation with Peter Twal
“I try to remember in all that I do–poetry included–that I am a product of the generosity of other hearts, and it’s important for me to reciprocate the love however […]
Author Archives: Jess Rizkallah
CROWD SURFING WITH GOD (AND ADRIENNE NOVY)
“Crowd Surfing With God is a book of consistent breaking and re-fixing. I love most how the book pulls at the edges of all of Adrienne Novy’s many parts, stepping […]
Noor Wadi
In which her vision is حرية i keep having this dream where the sky is pregnant with our truths and gives birth to liberation. in it, we are all […]
Mohammed El-Kurd
This Is Why We Dance for Carmel Hilal, Home in my memory is a green, worn out couch and my grandmother in every poem every jasmine picked off the backlash […]
Remi Kanazi
Nakba she was scared seven months pregnant guns pointed at temples tears dropping stomach cusped back bent dirt pathways leading to dispossession rocking boats waves crashing people rushing falling […]
Noor Al-Naji
Diaspora Speaks In 2005, the Jerusalem Municipality approved a law that Arab store owners in all of Jerusalem must include at least 50% of their signs in Hebrew. Since Israel’s […]
Khalid Abudawas
Al Quds (Jerusalem) if I gave you my cousin’s bones would you recognize them? I have an entire album of faces who look like me they all have our family’s […]
Nakba: 70 years of Palestinian Resistance to Occupation
(“Gaza Leads Us Home” by Leila Abdelrazaq) Today marks 70 years since al-Nakba was executed against an unsuspecting people. Known in english as “the Catastrophe,” 1948 was the year in […]
Interview with Tatiana M.R. Johnson
“The connection between my spiritual ‘girl’ self to what my ancestors must have done to survive is absolutely cosmic.” I know I am alive and important enough to live forever […]
sarah winters
Maps For Teeth 