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SUMMARY:Poetry as Resistance: Fargo Tbakhi x Ahmad Almallah
DESCRIPTION:Book launch and poetry reading\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of poetry\, conversation\, and community as Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Ahmad Almallah read from their newly released collections TERROR COUNTER and Wrong Winds. Both works grapple with Palestinian life\, memory\, and resistance through formally inventive and urgent poetics. All ticket and book sales goes to supporting students from Gaza. Please consider sliding donation for food available that will all go towards the fundraiser. \n\n\nAhmad Almallah grew up in Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia. His newest poetry collection\, Wrong Winds\, is out with Fonograf Editions (2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions 2023) and Bitter English (Chicago 2019). He is an artist in residence in English and Creative Writing at UPenn. His poems appeared in Poetry\, SAND\, APR\, MQR\, Icarus among others. Some of his honors include: a fellowship and residency at Millay Arts\, the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize and the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. \n\n\nWrong Winds (Ahmad Almallah) \nWhen genocide is the question\, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds\, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza\, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities\, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian\, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places\, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot\, Lorca\, and Celan\, among others)\, the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying. \nPraise: \n“Wrong Winds is an epitome of poetic labor: a book that teaches the awesome responsibility of being fully human. Ahmad Almallah imagines a language for survival on a planet where people and morality are routinely and casually displaced\, and offers pathways for us to come to terms with the world we are creating: a place that contains utmost beauty and unutterable hurt. Long after Palestine is free\, these urgent poems will remain touchstones of what counters the degradation of the human spirit.” —Anna Badkhen \n \n\n\nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist. \nTERROR COUNTER (Fargo Tbakhi) \nTERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal\, legal\, literary\, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. Moving through sections of varying experimentalism\, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic\, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair\, futility\, utopia\, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival\, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And\, ultimately\, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world? \nPraise: \n“In this debut collection electric with grief\, rage\, and love\, Tbakhi enacts the liberatory possibilities of a language reclaimed. This book will crack your heart open. Let it\, let the light come pouring in.” —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, author of Something About Living
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LOCATION:THE CEDAR WORKS COMMUNITY CENTER\, 4919 Pentridge Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Book Launch for Sarah Aziza’s "THE HOLLOW HALF" (Philly)
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with author Sarah Aziza and book launch for “The Hollow Half.” The evening will open with 2 poetry acts.\n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar presents a community celebration of Sarah Aziza’s debut memoir The Hollow Half (Catapult Books) followed by a post-reading conversation moderated by Camonghne Felix. Joining Aziza will be special guest readers Candice Iloh and Angbeen Saleem. Hosted by: Denice Frohman and Jess X. Snow. Books will be for sale and all proceeds will be donated to support Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza. \nFundraising for Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza: Our goal is to raise $5\,000 to support Sarah’s family in Gaza who face a lack of food and adequate shelter after having been displaced multiple times because of the ongoing genocide. We will also have La La Lil Jidar posters\, Palestine art\, and shirts for sale. \nFood will be provided by Renata’s Kitchen. We encourage attendees to come early (6PM) before the event begins (6:30PM) to eat\, mingle and buy merch. \nLimited tickets @ $45+ reserve a copy of The Hollow Half. \nAll other tickets sliding scale. \n\n\nAbout “The Hollow Half” \nThe Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza is a searing\, genre-bending memoir tracing three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back. In October 2019\, Sarah Aziza\, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees\, was narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body\, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria\, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. \nAs she responds to a series of ghostly dreams\, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy\, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization\, denial\, and patriarchy both within and outside her. \nBreathtaking\, fiercely honest. . .Sarah Aziza weaves a genre-bending memoir of body and land\, an unflinching look at the tyranny of emotional\, physical\, and intrapsychic hunger. These hungerings—complex\, visceral\, ever-present—frame a story of hauntings\, erasures\, colonization\, and the metaphor and reality of Palestine. But The Hollow Half is not merely a dissection of absence; it is an expansion of genre itself\, gorgeously blending memoir with dreamwork\, ancestral secrets with reclaimed history. Through stunning\, transformative prose\, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.” —Hala Alyan\, author of The Moon That Turns You Back \n\n\nAbout Sarah Aziza (author) \nSarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half\, a genre-bending work of memoir\, lyricism\, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream. \nSarah’s award-winning journalism\, poetry\, essays\, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and The Nation\, among other publications. \n\n\nAbout Asian Arts Initiative \nAccessibility note: this event is on the ground floor and do not need stairs to enter \nConnecting cultural expression and social change\, Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian Americans. Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North\, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center offering exhibitions\, performances\, artist residencies\, youth workshops\, and a community gathering space. Here\, all of us can view and create art that reflects our lives\, and think critically\, creatively about the future we want to build for our communities. \nhttps://asianartsinitiative.org/
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LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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