Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
@lenakt.bsky.social
Poet, Translator, Essayist.
If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚
September 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚
August 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Day 6
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Day 6
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 4
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Day 4
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 3
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Day 3
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 2
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
August 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Day 2
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Day 1
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Day 1
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Good Morning American Taxpayers
June 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Good Morning American Taxpayers
On this 600th day of global shame, what I will not do
May 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
On this 600th day of global shame, what I will not do
May 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Update:
Thanks to all who helped report it
Thanks to all who helped report it
April 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Update:
Thanks to all who helped report it
Thanks to all who helped report it
Apologies if you are receiving follow requests from this FAKE ACCOUNT that has stolen my profile picture and name but also decided I am no longer a poet?
Please report and unfollow!
Please report and unfollow!
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Apologies if you are receiving follow requests from this FAKE ACCOUNT that has stolen my profile picture and name but also decided I am no longer a poet?
Please report and unfollow!
Please report and unfollow!
There’s not “But HaMaS!” way out of this genocide.
March 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There’s not “But HaMaS!” way out of this genocide.
Israel has just assassinated two Palestinian journalists. I learned about the assassination of Hossam Shabat from breaking news that interrupted the news of the assassination of Mohammad Mansour.
Hossam’s car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
Hossam’s car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
March 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Israel has just assassinated two Palestinian journalists. I learned about the assassination of Hossam Shabat from breaking news that interrupted the news of the assassination of Mohammad Mansour.
Hossam’s car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
Hossam’s car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
Good Butterfly Afternoon
The gen0c¡de is escalating
The silence even more so
The gen0c¡de is escalating
The silence even more so
March 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Good Butterfly Afternoon
The gen0c¡de is escalating
The silence even more so
The gen0c¡de is escalating
The silence even more so
I received an invitation from PEN America.
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I received an invitation from PEN America.
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
I declined.
In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud.
I believe daylight matters.
Here is the text of my response:
Interrupting butterflyville
February 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Interrupting butterflyville