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Summer Farah

Reviews + Essays

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

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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 RIFQAat LA Review of Books

Books We Read by Arabs in 2021with Samia Saliba

The Baby Reimagined: Poets Edition with Samia Saliba

Constellations Series: The Camera Doesn’t Love Anyone at Mosaic Theater blog

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

In Review: sad horse music by Samantha Fain at Vagabond City Lit

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

In Review: BINT by Ghwina Jawhari at Vagabond City Lit

In Review: Alien Miss by Carlina Duan at Vagabond City Lit

In Review: Cut Woman by Dena Igusti at Vagabond City Lit

In Review: Ghost Tracks by Sneha Subramanian Kanta at Vagabond City Lit

“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*

“by words I mean food” SNAX Issue One

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Selected Poetry

AFTER WE WATCH ROAD FOOD I CONSIDER PLACE - Apogee Journal

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

two poems - Foglifter, Volume 8 Issue 1

two pooems - Long Con Magazine, Issue 14

two poems - GARDEN PARTY, Violet Indigo Blue Etc

I WANT TO BE ALIVE FOR A REASON - Palette Poetry

two poems - Summer 2022, Violet Indigo Blue Etc

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

two poems - Sumou Issue 5

two poems - bahr issue 1

three poems - The Rumpus

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

“origin story” – Mizna 19.1, The Palestine Issue

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

Selected editorial Work

FIYAH LIT Palestine Solidarity Issue as Guest Poetry Editor

ORIGINALITYISDEAD as Editor

Interviews

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

Podcasts & misc.

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience – disney+ podcast+

“we are summer farah” – ethnically ambiguous

“Palestine, Poetry & Pokemon with Summer!” – the queer arabs

“being a MENA poet with Summer Farah” – dirty pink commie

“Recognizing Under-Known Arab Americans This Women’s History Month” – arabamerica