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Summer Farah

Selected Poetry

AFTER MOUNT TAMALPAIS, I TELL ETEL ADNAN ABOUT SUPERNATURAL - Poem-A-Day

the angels are falling - The Seventh Wave

IN ANOTHER LIFE LINK IS A POET - Split This Rock

A YEAR AFTER I LOVED HAIKYUU, - Kenyon Review

I TELL ETEL ADNAN ABOUT MITSKI - Kenyon Review

I TELL ETEL ADNAN ABOUT THE LEGEND OF ZELDA - Kenyon Review

AFTER WE WATCH ROAD FOOD I CONSIDER PLACE - Apogee Journal

I TELL ETEL ADNAN ABOUT JULIE & JULIA - SPRING CLEAN, Violet Indigo Blue Etc

portrait of each moon that has seen link live - Poetry Online

two poems - bahr issue 1

three poems - The Rumpus

THE MOON IS PRO-PALESTINE - voicemail poems winter 2021 issue

“it will be pink” – LitHub, I FORGOT, LIKE YOU, TO DIE: 12 PALESTINIAN WRITERS RESPOND TO THE ONGOING NAKBA

Selected Reviews + Essays

Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd at Mizna

From Witness From Speech From Image: On Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee at Poetry Northwest. Buy it in zine form, with all proceeds going to the Gaza Poets Society, here.

A Theory of Birds: Zaina Alsous’s Poetry Imagines a Future in Which There Are Palestinians at Words Without Borders

Review of “I Will Not Fold These Maps” by Mona Kareem trans. Sara Elkamel at The Common

POETRY DOUBLE FEATURES: SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY x HIJRA at Palette Poetry

POETRY DOUBLE FEATURES: R E D x WE’VE ALL SEEN HELENA at Palette Poetry

See the rest of Poetry Double Features Here

Mouth to Mouth v. The Book of Gooseat Tournament of Books

A Year in Reading at The Millions

“A New Silent Grammar”: On Customs by Solmaz Sharif” at Cleveland Review of Books

“I Write An Attempt: On Mohammed El-Kurd’s RIFQA at LA Review of Books

Books We Read by Arabs in 2021 with Samia Saliba

The Baby Reimagined: Poets Edition with Samia Saliba

Poetry Potluck: Layali Lubnan for Aracelis Girmay at University of Arizona Poetry Center

In Review: VILLAINY by Andrea Abi-Karam at Vagabond City Lit

In Review: Born in a Second Language by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie at Vagabond City Lit

See other reviews at Vagabond City Lit Here.

In Review: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem at Strange Horizons

“No one is named. They are assigned: A Review of Jessica Abughattas’s Strip” at ANOMALY

““ , .”: Space and Justice in the Poetry of Solmaz Sharif”, Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century, Lexington Books*

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Interviews + Profiles

Sarah Lyn Rogers Turns Ugly Feelings into Poetry at Electric Lit

Interlink is a Palestinian American Publisher with a Purpose at Publisher’s Weekly

Palestinian Poets on the Role of Literature in Fighting Genocide at Electric Lit

The Craft of Turning Video Games into Literary Essays at Electric Lit

The Same Water at Different Points: A Conversation with Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck at Los Angeles Review of Books

SUMMER FARAH SPEAKS WITH LEENA ABOUTALEB ABOUT HER DEBUT CHAPBOOK at Poetry Online

A Conversation with Zein Sa’dedin at Sumou Mag

A Conversation with Maya Salameh at Sumou Mag

RAWIFest Interviews - with shereen & bes