“God threatens to kick all the Mexicans out of heaven si no paran con las pendejadas.” I never asked my father if he believed in heaven. I assume he must […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(“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 […]
“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 […]
Maps For Teeth 