It’s that time of year again, my two favorite months rolled into one: #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and #PoetryMonth! I’ll be celebrating by sharing a #PoemADay, each one featuring a different #ArabAmerican poet! Yalla!
@AAIUSA @RAWInews
But first, some incredible news:
CONGRATULATIONS @ThreaWrites!
#ArabAmericansLead
What a joyous way to start #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth!
https://twitter.com/poetsorg/status/1244655629001785348?s=21 https://twitter.com/poetsorg/status/1244655629001785348
As we go through #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth, I’ll do my best to highlight giants of the #ArabAmerican literary canon as well as emerging voices + some amazing organizations who allow our work to thrive🧿❤️
Celebrating @ThreaWrites big win, we'll start our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoemADay with the gripping piece, "Spray of Citrus and a Month-Long Suffering" published in @Mizna_ArabArt's 20th anniversary issue earlier this year! https://twitter.com/Mizna_ArabArt/status/1245030357302267904
In thematic conversation with yesterday's poem, for Day 2 of #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth - #PoetryMonth #PoemADay, here's a gut-wrenching classic that has found new resonance for many #ArabAmericans: #Gibran's "Dead Are My People," written in 1916: http://www.adab.com/en/modules.php?name=Sh3er&doWhat=shqas&qid=101
2) #ArabAmerican playwright @IsmailKhalidi wrote an eponymous play inspired by the poem, produced by @NoorTheatre http://www.noortheatre.org/productions 
The camellia in my backyard has finally bloomed, so today the #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth #PoemADay has to be "Xylem" by Kamelya Youssef,
@KamTeaches
Absolute magic: http://birdsthumb.org/february-2017/2017/1/27/xylem
While we are on the subject of #Arabic, the #PoemADay for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth is @marwahelal’s work of genius, “a poem to be read from right to left” in my new favorite form, which she invented: The Arabic http://www.wintertangerine.com/helal-poem-to-be-read
P.S. if you’re looking to celebrate achievement in Palestinian lit, George Abraham @IntifadaBatata and @SaharMustafah are doing a joint book release tonight: https://twitter.com/intifadabatata/status/1246476067499622402?s=21 https://twitter.com/IntifadaBatata/status/1246476067499622402
Some days we distract & run from pain, but some days we are forced to sit and burrow deep in the <3 of it. So grateful to Mohja @ProfKahf for immortalizing sweet Halla in @Mizna_ArabArt. This poem burns deep.
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth https://twitter.com/Mizna_ArabArt/status/1216389588295520257
today, "love poem for the newly out" by @ZeynJoukhadar from the @corditepoetry "bayt" http://cordite.org.au/poetry/bayt/love-poem-for-the-newly-out/
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
#PoetryMonth
#PoemADay
Zeyn is guest editing next issue of @Mizna_ArabArt & submissions close tomorrow! yalla submit! https://twitter.com/ZeynJoukhadar/status/1243925176447893506
Deadline for the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is extended to 5/1! https://www.uapress.com/eteladnanpoetryseries/
Hard to understate the impact she has had. I'm taking a moment today to be inspired by her visual poetry. What a trailblazer. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth https://hyperallergic.com/321709/etel-adnans-vibrant-visual-poems/
Not one but nine(!) #PoemADay from Jack Marshall for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth

Which one is your favorite?
http://shj.kysoflash.com/MarshallPortfolio.aspx
"in another dimension i am a good daughter" by @JessRiz was yesterday's #PoemADay. it is biting. Evokes themes in Nadine Naber's book Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth https://twitter.com/JessRiz/status/1113102377199038464
Watch "Al Bahr" by @tariqLuthun, the #PoemADay
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth

His book, How the Water Holds Me, is out tomorrow!
Today is the day @laypay's much-anticipated DELUGE comes to us! Here is a poem from the collection to celebrate: #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth https://twitter.com/laypay/status/1252227794878201856
Not sure what y'all are doing tonight, but I am partying: https://twitter.com/CosturaCreative/status/1250434541761617922
go get your hands on these magnificent books! it can't be said enough: what a time for Arab American poetry.... https://twitter.com/RAWInews/status/1252613308185804801
What a joy to hear the @YPPLaureate Naomi Shihab Nye read "live" last night. The last time I had such an opportunity was 2003! She still is ever gracious. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth
On #EarthDay50 I'm listening to her poem "Two Countries" https://onbeing.org/poetry/two-countries/
I've been waiting all #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth to highlight
@PhilipMetres. Named a Guggenheim Fellow earlier this month, today I'm celebrating the release of Shrapnel Maps! Can't wait to read it! https://twitter.com/PhilipMetres/status/1252611378944315393
Today I'm reading "Coordinates," the latest publication of @LKTuffaha, who inspired this thread :)
http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/issue37/coordinates/
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