Prairie Schooner Fusion #12 Archives: Palestinian poets and poets from the back issues of the Schooner collaborate on a special portfolio of poetry exploring the theme of “Archive”...

 

https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/fusion-archives/fusion-12-archive/

“… I offer you this Palestinian archive of poems, a record of repeated exiles, of ongoing Nakba, a collection of poems that scrutinize the language rife with hierarchies aimed at undoing us.”    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, from the Introduction

 

Four Illustrations   ^{Nidal El-Khairy}

_{Palestinian Suite}

Poetry

Inheritance

By leena aboutaleb

When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America

By George Abraham

Before Gaza, a Fall

By Ahmad Al-Mallah

Immortal Sea, Your Sea

By Zeina Azzam

“It Was Not Yesterday But Today”

By Olivia Elias

THE FIGS ARE MOLDING

By Summer Farah

Dear […]

By Fady Joudah

POEM WITH GENOCIDE IN THE TITLE

By Emily Khilfeh

Untitled with a line from Etel Adnan

By A.D. Lauren-Abunassar

Let The Naïve Know How We Envy Them

By Sara Abou Rashed

Sun Theater Sonnets

By Deema K. Shehabi

Abjadarian* in Autumn

By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

SEA LEGS

By Priscilla Wathington

A Certain Resilience

By Issam Zineh

 

 “Archives and archiving can offer poetic material and process for articulating presences and histories and trajectories tethered to truth.”   Siwar Masannat

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