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summer farah
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author of I COULD DIE TODAY & LIVE AGAIN (Game Over Books) + THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications) 💜| 🇵🇸 summerfarah.com
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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 5d
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
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if you're interested in covering THE HUNGERING YEARS, a debut collection by a palestinian writer abt friendship & food & art & obsession, pls reach out to me or my publisher (editors at hostpublications dot com) 👼
summ.bsky.social summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 5d
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
@hostpublications.bsky.social
2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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summ.bsky.social summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 5d
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝
Ally holding a copy of their book and smiling Selfie of Ally holding a copy of their book with a big stack of books in the background two copies of Let the Moon Wobble, one with the front cover facing out and one with the back cover facing out
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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boygenius??? more like BOOKgenius amirite??? order our books, y’all!!! @summ.bsky.social, @theoceanisgay.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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If you like supernatural and poetry or even just one of those things you should preorder the hungering years by summer farah :) it's seriously soooo good

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The Hungering Years by Summer Farah
Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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deleting and reposting my cover reveal because I can't keep track of what year we are in
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
summ.bsky.social
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
@hostpublications.bsky.social
2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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happy november 5 👼 poets.org/poem/after-m...
After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural - Summer Farah "I make paintings and watercolors of Tamalpais. Again and again. Why do I insist? Am I trying to hold some image, to capture some meaning, to assert its presence, to measure myself to its timelessness, to fight, or to accept? —Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais" I understand, I tell her, the desire to not only return but to be consumed. I have had obsessions, I have been made small by those obsessions, I wonder if you would agree it is possible for something to be absolute but still unseen. I was Cassandra, once. I wanted dearly to go to the mountain. Instead of cliches, I design my pulse to loneliness anew. It’s different than ten years ago—I go outside, now, take its contradiction with me. Oh the most painful love-story of them all! These gaps between comprehension! I could never forget, no matter how many times they beg me to. The mountain was there before us and it will be there after. Yes, a return; each journey wrought another history, each day I try to capture its form; why do I insist? In lieu of a paintbrush, I sew my voice in its throat. In the Beginning, there was Blood, Horror, Myth, Obsession; and then there was Love, there was, I swear, when the static spilled! again and again, our eyes stained with its evidence, We find new proof uncovered on every return. We were all Cassandra, once, young and hysterical, oh, I hope you’ll understand I take it so seriously when I say the violence shifted subjects. Oh, we screamed! we screamed! We swore our eyes were true! Audience becomes the blood, the horror, the myth, the static, Again, and again, you said, again, and again, I say, again, again. Chart with the categories "disproved by canon / not disproved by canon / actually canon" on the horizontal line and "lightly implied / heavily implied / practically canon" on vertical line with a still of dean and castiel supernatural hugging filling up every section
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Big fan of using the word "awesome" in my work as a literary critic
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“Us artists, we’ve always had to claw and push to get the things that we need… It’s been a lot of relearning how to negotiate for myself.” (@summ.bsky.social)
A Poetry Collection That Mirrors the Grotesqueness of Girlhood - Electric Literature
I.S. Jones’s “Bloodmercy” reimagines the story of Cain and Abel as sisters
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November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Bloodmercy...excellent book for people who are fans of a TV show I love very much...Won't say which one
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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was absolutely captivated by I.S. Jones during our convo abt her DEBUT BLOODMERCY!! @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/a-poetry-col...
A Poetry Collection That Mirrors the Grotesqueness of Girlhood - Electric Literature
I.S. Jones’s “Bloodmercy” reimagines the story of Cain and Abel as sisters
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November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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"when the creature is smashed there is no more sound!! when we walk down the street it belongs to us again!! that night we hear music pouring out of every window!! in every language!!"

—Samia Saliba

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Samia Saliba – ANMLY
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November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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it's carry me out by mitski Saturday night everybody
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Please support Sudan Solidarity Collective’s work
nisrinelamin.bsky.social Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Oct 11
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Some (more) ANMLY news (deep lore)! Our amazing Asst. Fiction Editor jonah wu will be stepping up as Fiction Co-Editor w/ current Co-Editor Kathy Henion! Meanwhile, Addie Tsai will be stepping away as Fiction Co-Editor, but staying on as our Fiction Editor-At-Large (and Features & Reviews Editor!)
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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if you are a magazine or freelancer or person who otherwise writes & talks about books and would like to review/interview me about THE HUNGERING YEARS (@hostpublications.bsky.social) please reach out via my contact form or to my publisher :) cover coming soon. here is a description of the book.
Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid of asking the right questions,” Farah admits. But through intimate conversations with fellow Arab-American writer and literary ancestor Etel Adnan, this work finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment? Though the answers are elusive, what steps into the light is a collective of friends whose genuine care and companionship anchor these poems through their spiraling search. “I am always looking for Palestine, and yes, I am always looking for love,” these poems croon, holding so much of the world even as they trace an inheritance of displacement. The Hungering Years conjures startling landscapes where we may also experience what it is to be consumed by obsession, echoing with songs by Mitski, iconic scenes from Supernatural, and the sound of the Mediterranean Sea. But as Lena Khalaf Tuffaha writes in her introduction, Farah’s repetitions “are more than echo. They are a vernacular of this unspeakable era,” anchored in “questions that keep us reaching toward life,” and questions toward each other. Building glass structures from her questions, Farah pushes their architecture almost to breaking. Then breaking, the spirit—luminous, actualized—reveals itself through the cracks. Through the landscapes of California, Palestine, and all of the distances in between, there emerges a new sense of devotion to what is possible which might thrust us, together, “off the edge, / in love, towards God.”
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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One more from the archives!

the (dead)name speaks by February Spikener from beestung for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
One Poem by February Spikener the (dead)name speaks What my girl will never see is her mother digging in the night, screaming like a horse about to be shot as she unearths my tomb. Only I am witness to my own desecration: her mother holding herself over my grave, all my ashes dried jagged in her open mouth.
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Kind of funny that publishing solved the problem of people not buying novellas or story collections by simply calling them "novels." It totally works. Turns out people just really like the word "novel" I guess.
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I really don't want to advertise my book on Instagram so I will post here more 💔
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I have a book cover
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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reminder that review copies are available! if you like poetry that engages w food & friendship & obsessive relationships to art, this may be the book for u
summ.bsky.social summer farah @summ.bsky.social · Mar 9
book incoming from @hostpublications.bsky.social feb 2026 💜
THE HUNGERING YEARS by SUMMER FARAH deal announcement
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM