Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration

with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Please join Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha as they celebrate their new chapbooks—Everything Here and Letters from the Interior—and the poetry, conversations, and communities that sustain their work.

Billie Swift lives in Seattle, Washington, where she is the owner and operator of Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She received an MFA in poetry from the Rainer Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha has lived the experiences of first-generation American, immigrant, and expatriate. Her heritage is Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English, and has academic proficiency in French. She has lived in and traveled across the Arab world, and many of her poems are inspired by the experience of crossing cultural, geographic and political borders, borders between languages, between the present and the living past.