poetic forms
greathouse, torrin a. "My Mouth Is the Mouth of a River." Redivider, vol. 17, no. 1, 2 August 2022. Web. Viewed 23 March 2023.
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.
Zeina Hashem Beck reads from her first three books—To Live in Autumn (2014), Louder Than Hearts (2017), and O (2022)—as well as from her forthcoming This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (2027). Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, feature throughout the work Hashem Beck shares. She also reads poems in forms including a triptych, a bilingual "duet" mixing English and Arabic, and "flipping" sonnets, which are read both top to bottom and bottom to top.
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