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SUMMARY:Misna: The Experimental Issue Virtual Launch
DESCRIPTION:Event details\n  \n\nOn Sunday\, January 30\, join Mizna in launching The Experimental Issue with TWENTY ONE AUTHORS. \nFeatured readers include Mays Albaik\, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman\, Darius Atefat-Peckman\, Hajjar Baban\, Doris Bittar\, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán\, Mohammed El-Kurd\, Tracy Fuad\, Farah Kader\, Magdeline Maher\, Khashayar Mohammadi\, Yasmine Rukia\, hana roz\, Trish Salah\, Glenn Shaheen\, Nadia Shihab\, Fargo Tbakhi\, Mohamed Tonsy\, Sarah Sophia Yanni\, Omar Zahzah + Issam Zineh. \nThis event takes place virtually at 11 am CT\, RSVP required. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nTamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman (she/her) is a bi-racial Muslim writer\, historian\, poet\, and artist. Her first book of poetry “The Raven\, The Bayou\, & The Willow ” is forthcoming through FlowerSong Press Spring 2022. She is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow (2020)\, a Rad(ical) Poetry Fellow (2020)\, and a poet for the Houston Grand Opera & MFAH’s event “The Art of Intimacy.” (2019) She was nominated this year for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. Her work can be found in (Art) WORDPEACE and Mixed Magazine\, (Fiction) Crack the Spine Literary Magazine\, (Poetry) Boundless 2021: The Anthology of the Rio Grande River Valley International Poetry Festival\, and others. \nHajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish Poet. A 2021 PD Soros Fellow and current MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Virginia\, she has poems appearing in BAHR Magazine and the Southeast Review. You can read her work here: hajjarbaban.com \nDoris Bittar is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting\, photography\, installation\, video\, sound and performance. Bittar participated with Gulf Labor in the Venice Biennale in 2015 and other international and national exhibits. She won the Alexandria\, Egypt Biennial 2nd prize and various awards\, grants and recognitions in the United States and abroad. \nAhimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review’s international queer Indigenous issue; and co-editor of Movement Research Performance Journal’s Native dance/movement/performance issue. \nTracy Fuad is the author of about:blank\, chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and published in 2021 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA Program and a 2021-22 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and teaches poetry at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. \nFarah Kader is a New York-based public health analyst. She was a recipient of the 2017 Palestinian Youth Movement’s Ghassan Kanafani Writing Prize and a 2019 Hopwood Graduate Award for poetry. Kader’s work has been published in Mizna\, Orion Magazine\, Electric Literature\, and Narrative Magazine. \nKhashayar Mohammadi (He/They) is a queer\, Iranian born\, Toronto-based Poet\, Writer and Translator. They are the winner of the Vallum Poetry Prize 2021 and author of four poetry Chapbooks. Their debut poetry collection “Me\, You\, Then Snow” is out with Gordon Hill Press. \nYasmine Rukia is a first generation Lebanese-American Shia experimental poet. Her work exploring the nexus between hyphens\, breaths and beliefs can be found in the Black Warrior Review\, Mizna\, Cliterature\, The Gordon Square Review\, The Belt\, Jaffat el-aqlam and others. She lives in Dearborn Michigan with her two sons. \nGlenn Shaheen is the author of four books. He is the Executive Director of the Radius of Arab American Writers and teaches at Prairie View A&M University. \nFargo Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian performance artist\, a Taurus\, and a cool breeze. Find more at fargotbakhi.com. \nMohamed Tonsy is a queer Egyptian writer\, ceramicist and a PhD graduate of Edinburgh University. His writing has recently appeared in Epoch Press’s ‘Transitions’ issue\, e.i.i.i zine’s ‘Navel’ issue\, is set to appear in Mizna’s unthemed Summer 2022 issue\, and has been shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short Story Competition. His debut novel — You Must Believe in Spring — is set to be published by Hajar Press\, late 2022. \nSarah Sophia Yanni is a Mexican-Egyptian writer\, editor\, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press\, 2019) and was a Finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest\, Poetry Online’s 2021 Launch Prize\, and the Hayden’s Ferry Review Inaugural Poetry Contest. She currently serves as Managing Editor of Tiding House and holds a Faculty Fellowship at CalArts. \nOmar Zahzah is a writer\, poet\, independent scholar\, and organizer of Lebanese-Palestinian descent whose creative\, critical\, political\, academic\, and journalistic writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from various publications including Narrative magazine\, Mizna\, FIYAH\, Electronic Intifada\, Middle East Eye\, Arab Studies Quarterly\, Full Stop\, and the New York Times. Several of Omar’s poems were featured in the anthology\, Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry. In 2016\, Omar’s chapbook 13 Almost Love Poems was released\, and Omar’s chapbook\, DEATH\, is forthcoming from swallow::tale press. Omar is the Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine as well as a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI.) Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. \nIssam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is author of the poetry collection Unceded Land (forthcoming summer 2022\, Trio House Press) and the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel\, 2021). His poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI\, Pleiades\, Gulf Coast\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. Find him at issamzineh.com or on Twitter @izineh.
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