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Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf. Something about Living. Akron: The University of Akron Press, 2024.
Poetry Center Summer Resident Stephen Willey reads from "Living In," a manuscript-in-progress; the section performed here was composed during his residency. This reading was originally given with Brian Blanchfield and Karen Brennan.
Poet and physician Fady Joudah reads uncollected and new poems; poems from Alight (2013) and Textu (2014); and translations from the works of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, Hussein Barghouthi, and Amjad Nasser.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads from her third book, Something about Living (2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. She shares poems centered on the lives of Palestinians, their ongoing experience of extreme violence and war, and the deep effects of imperialism. This reading was originally given with Annie Wenstrup.
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