On 16 May at Molasses Books (NY), I'm co-organising an event with beloved, where I'll be reading with poet-translator Miled Faiza, as well as Laura al-Tibi and Amr Amer, the duo behind "Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation"

Join us at 8 pm / free

I'm reading some new translations at Ridgewood this Saturday

Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s debut into English; Andrés Paniagua’s newest; Gazan poetry in Spanish and a collection of texts by Afro-Peruvian composer Victoria Santa Cruz published by Chilean press Otra Sinceridad

La Santa Maria La Ribera, CDMX

A real trip and beautiful translation

First and last day of the semester at Hunter 🫶🏾

Samahani in the Irish Times' round-up 🥲

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

@ The Strand, NYC

Thank you friends for coming out to celebrate Samahani <3

Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity.

Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

Tonight!

Najlaa Eltom, Hatim al-Kinani, Mohammed Zenia, Hikma Yagoub, Mamoun Eltlib and I will be reading the work of Sudanese poets still in Sudan, unable or unwilling to leave for various reasons. Join us <3

See you this Saturday 8pm at Molasses Books!