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
two ways Gibran's "Dead Are My People" are living today:
1) Lebanese artist Yazan Halwani morphed the text of this infamous poem into "The Memory Tree," a monument for victims of the great famine
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth #PoemADay #Lebanon https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/yazan-halwani-remembering-lebanon-s-great-famine-with-a-canopy-of-words-1.756129
Yazan Halwani: Remembering Lebanon’s great famine with a canopy of words

The Lebanese street artist tells 'The National' why he chose poetry to commemorate the catastrophic event 100 years on

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/yazan-halwani-remembering-lebanon-s-great-famine-with-a-canopy-of-words-1.756129
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
Today’s #PoemADay for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth is “In Which All Language Fails My Gender” by @Haz_Fahmy (after @mafiasafia) http://apt.aforementionedproductions.com/2017/12/in-which-all-language-fails-my-gender-by-hazem-fahmy/#.XojzfSQpCEd
In Which All Language Fails My Gender by Hazem Fahmy

(after Safia Elhillo)          How dare I          use a pronoun        …

http://apt.aforementionedproductions.com/2017/12/in-which-all-language-fails-my-gender-by-hazem-fahmy/#.XojzfSQpCEd
The #PoemADay I’m sharing today for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth is the oh-so-relatable “Self Portrait with Profanity” by Safia Elhillo, @mafiasafia, one of our great young voices https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148388/self-portrait-with-profanity
Self-Portrait with Profanity by Safia Elhillo | Poetry Magazine

ninety-nine names for my god

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148388/self-portrait-with-profanity
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
poem to be read from right to left — Winter Tangerine

http://www.wintertangerine.com/helal-poem-to-be-read
It is publication! day! for @IntifadaBatata🥳🤩 so today I’m celebrating the publication of BIRTHRIGHT and sharing the Markov Sonnet, their new form as my #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth #PoemADay https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150570/ekphrasis-with-toothing-chainsaw-in-unnamed-halhul-vineyard
Ekphrasis With Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed… | Poetry Foundation

The waraq, empty of chlorophyll, hung chewed & dangling

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150570/ekphrasis-with-toothing-chainsaw-in-unnamed-halhul-vineyard
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
Today I’m sharing not one #PoemADay but four, by Zaina Alsous @diasporadical_z
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
#PoetryMonth https://aaww.org/memory-of-figment/
Memory of Figment a Merely: Four Poems by Zaina Alsous

At this point I will disobey and say / you are free to go if you choose. Choice is a complicated part of describing / Palestinian heroes or terrorists.

https://aaww.org/memory-of-figment/
Because these days we need more poetry, today I again share four poems for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth. Today, a focus on #DC with poet and @SplitThisRock Executive Director @rashaabdulhadi, published by @BeltwayPoetry: http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/four-poems-abdulhadi/
Four Poems by Rasha Abdulhadi | Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Like a Cypress, Headlong on my best days. and like a cypress, I dream the rhizome of spring humming through brethren bodies of sistren trees. I want to dream the dream of forest and wake to new...

http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/four-poems-abdulhadi/
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
For all the Tetas, and especially for each Palestinian sitty, today the #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth #PoemADay is "A Refugee Grows Old" by @zeina3azzam in the stupendous recent collection from @corditepoetry http://cordite.org.au/poetry/bayt/a-refugee-grows-old/
A Refugee Grows Old

for my mother She is surprised by the pink cyclamen in the pot, examines the foreign petals, upswept as if reaching toward another place. Her own journey seems muted now, details as far away as her…

http://cordite.org.au/poetry/bayt/a-refugee-grows-old/
“the violence along social fracture-lines, anarcho-capital circulating at infinite speed, returning to itself even
before taking leave of itself”
—
“Of What We Know Now,”
our Easter
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth #PoemADay by Lawrence Joseph https://kenyonreview.org/journal/julyaug-2017/selections/lawrence-joseph/
Of What We Know Now | Journal

And that February cloudless night, deep, now, in its own reflection, golden full moon’s dark blue penumbra; and ice sheets collapsing causing earthquakes, rattling seismographs thousands of miles...

https://kenyonreview.org/journal/julyaug-2017/selections/lawrence-joseph/
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
just finished up at a virtual open mic night, so tonight sharing this immortal set by an OG Goddess for so many of us, @yosuheirhammad. Grateful to @ArabAmericanMus for this archived performance of hers from 2009:
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
#PoetryMonth https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/suheir-hammad-performed-live/id430587826?mt=10
Suheir Hammad: Performed live at DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts, 2009 - Suheir Hammad by Arab American...

Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of Suheir Hammad: Performed live at DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts, 2009 - Suheir Hammad by Arab American National Museum for free.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/suheir-hammad-performed-live/id430587826?mt=10
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/
"IN THE CITY IT’S FLESH" by @nalsamarrai is the #PoemADay #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth https://cosmonautsavenue.com/noor-al-samarrai-city-flesh/
Noor Al-Samarrai | Cosmonauts Avenue

of gold dust, the right dust, the only dust claimed or must they be re-worked into concrete dimmed

https://cosmonautsavenue.com/noor-al-samarrai-city-flesh/
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
note: @JessRiz was the inaugural winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Buy this beautiful book! https://www.uapress.com/product/the-magic-my-body-becomes/
the magic my body becomes

poems by Jess Rizkallah 70 pages 5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-68226-040-1 (paper) October 2017      

https://www.uapress.com/product/the-magic-my-body-becomes/
"One of the Ways that We Show Our Age" by @PeterTwal
#PoemADay #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth + #PoetryMonth
https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-fall/selections/peter-twal-763879/
(the 2nd Etel Adnan winner, buy his book!) https://www.uapress.com/product/our-earliest-tattoos/
Our Earliest Tattoos

Poems by Peter Twal 80 pages, 8 x 7 978–1–68226–072–2 (paper) October 2018  

https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-fall/selections/peter-twal-763879/
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/
“Two Countries”

A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye.

https://onbeing.org/poetry/two-countries/
"coming of age in arabish" by Mejdulene B. Shomali
"alif alive at the beginning
the first letter, the end

daad heavy D a dud
like the first stranger you kissed
...
ya yeah yeah a fist puncture
a cry, a beckoning"
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #PoetryMonth http://diodepoetry.com/shomali_mejdulene-b/
Mejdulene B. Shomali

IMG.displayed { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto } here, now   coming of age in arabish alif alive at the beginning the first letter, the end daad heavy D a dud like the f…

http://diodepoetry.com/shomali_mejdulene-b/
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
APOKALUPTEIN by Hayan Charara
"Today, which poems will cause institutions to fail?
Who worries about that?"
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
#PoetryMonth https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-five/issue-twenty-five-hayan-charara/
Issue Twenty-Five: Hayan Charara | The Adroit Journal

Hayan Charara’s poetry books are The Alchemist’s Diary (2001), The Sadness of Others (2006), and Something Sinister (2016). He also edited Inclined to Speak (2008), an anthology of contemporary Arab...

https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-five/issue-twenty-five-hayan-charara/
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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