Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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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
Hey @bsky.app

Why is a Palestinian asking for help in a GENOCIDE being flagged????
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:

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August 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Day 4

Living Room
by June Jordan

#thesealeychallenge

#EndtheGenocide

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August 5, 2025 at 3:34 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

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August 4, 2025 at 1:10 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
August 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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.

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August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Good Morning American Taxpayers
June 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
June 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
June 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On this 600th day of global shame, what I will not do
May 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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May 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Update:
Thanks to all who helped report it
April 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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!
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
There’s not “But HaMaS!” way out of this genocide.
March 24, 2025 at 4:32 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.
March 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Good Butterfly Afternoon
The gen0c¡de is escalating
The silence even more so
March 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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March 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
TODAY
March 6, 2025 at 5:19 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:
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Interrupting butterflyville
February 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM