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soup sketch

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抱きしめ鯛 (kitan club)

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Nadia Ayari (Tunisian/American, 1981), Waves II, 2023. Oil on linen, 42 x 50½ in.

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we can fish if we want to....

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Oh she thinks she’s the plusherrrrr

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honey honey

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Gold necklace with duckies, Eastern Roman/Byzantine, 4th-5th century AD

from the Walters Art Museum

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Double the bun, double the happiness!

Today I serve you, sandwich bread buns : )

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2013年12月21日15:11

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special in our own way, even if not

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palestinian poets: lena khalaf tuffaha

lena khalaf tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator and a first-generation american, immigrant, and expatriate of palestinian, jordanian, and syrian heritage. she is the author of two poetry chapbooks and three books of poetry: arab in newsland (two sylvias press, 2017); water & salt (red hen press, 2017), winner of the 2018 washington state book award for poetry; letters from the interior (diode editions, 2019); 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.

tuffaha also co-curated the collection poems from palestine at the baffler alongside fady joudah, and translated many of the pieces.

IF YOU READ JUST ONE POEM BY LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA, MAKE IT THIS ONE

you can read more about how this poem came to be, and also listen to it read aloud by numerous people.

OTHER POEMS ONLINE I LOVE BY LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA

In Case of Emergency at literary hub

Fragment at kuow (also read aloud)

Mountain, Stone at ours poetica (read aloud with subtitles)

Letter to June Jordan in September at the nation

Lullaby at poetry society of america, with reflections on the piece by naomi shihab nye

Dhayaa at sukoon

Beit Anya at poetry daily

Ruin at lunch ticket

Kaan Loves the Insomniac | كان النوم عميقا at diode

Lesson: Nymphaeum at the adroit journal (also read aloud)

Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing "The Bees' Path" at greensboro review

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little cats to send to ur favourite person 💌

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SAMPLER

Little embroideries of little things.

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Sanyo KDDI au A5510SA "Sweets" (2005)

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last year i assembled a partner's hellofresh recipes into a binder and drew this cover for it - the flowers in the border are copied from his kitchen counter tiles