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SUMMARY:Love Letters in the Slanted Season — A Celebration of Palestinian Poetry
DESCRIPTION:“the way love takes you inside its slanted season” — Nathalie Khankan \nWe can’t stop thinking about the books from last year’s Palestinian poetry subscription\, so we decided to have a reading to celebrate them together! On Valentine’s Day\, join us to share the love\, to read from twelve months-worth of exquisite poems with the series curator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Tatreez artist Hala Saleh. And because love is a verb\, there will be an opportunity to raise funds for people in Gaza as well.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/open-books-poetry-event/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Reading for Something About Living\, by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. Her heritage is Palestinian\, Jordanian\, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English. She is the author of three books of poetry\, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press)\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry\, Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House Press\, July 2023)\, and Something About Living\, winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry\, forthcoming from University of Akron Press\, 2024. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/book-launch-reading-for-something-about-living-by-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing
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SUMMARY:(Live and In person)  SHOP EVENTS STAFF PICKS ABOUT US MY ACCOUNT CONTACT Claire Schwartz\, Gabrielle Bates\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:A Seattle visit and a remarkable new debut by New York-based poet Claire Schwartz helps occasion what would be an excellent evening of work here as she is joined by esteemed Seattle poets Gabrielle Bates and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Claire Schwartz\,  who is poetry editor of Jewish Currents\, has a compelling first book out from Graywolf\, Civil Service. \n“The power of this book is in its uncontrollable private will to imagine against the public failure of imagination. The poet dismembers our political reality into the double-edged lines\, into the bare and ashamed symbols and silences. Brutal and coy\, Claire Schwartz creates a scream out of irony and a rhythm out of the four corners of the page.”—Valzhyna Mort. \n“We’ve all heard the cliché ‘poems are bombs.’ But Claire Schwartz’s incendiaries whisper hard truths and harder questions\, beckoning us closer\, seeping gently into our consciousness before exploding the passive and placid thinking that allow us to go about our ‘normal’ lives. Civil Service shines a bright light onto a dark world ruled by property\, prisons\, patriarchy\, and profit.”—Robin D. G. Kelley. \nGabrielle Bates has her debut poetry collection\, Judas Goat coming from Tin House Books in 2023\, works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is most recently the Washington State Book Award winner of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press) and Arab in Newsland\, winner of the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize. \nThis reading has now been moved to our friends and colleagues at Open Books: A Poem Emporium.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/live-and-in-person-shop-events-staff-picks-about-us-my-account-contact-claire-schwartz-gabrielle-bates-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration \nwith Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\nPlease 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. \nBillie 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. \n  \n  \nLena 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/call-when-you-have-a-minute/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jack Straw Group Reading - including Samar Abulhassan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday October 20th at 5 pm for an evening of poetry and prose with the 2019 Jack Straw Writing Fellows: Samar Abulhassan\, Christianne Balk\, Gabrielle Bates\, Shankar Narayan\, Sylvia Byrne Pollack\, Rena Priest\, Michael Schmeltzer \n—- \nSamar Abulhassan holds an M.F.A. from Colorado State University and has worked as a teaching artist for ten years\, for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ WITS Program\, Jack Straw\, and the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. \nBorn to Lebanese immigrants and raised with multiple languages\, she is a 2006 Hedgebrook alum and the author of multiple chapbooks\, including Farah and Nocturnal Temple. \nShe received a 2016 CityArtist grant to complete a novel-in-poems\, reflecting on memory\, longing\, and the Arabic alphabet\, ignited while exploring Pike Place Market and Seattle’s waterfront. \n  \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/jack-straw-group-reading-including-samar-abulhassan/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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