Nyla Matuk
@nylam.bsky.social
www.nylamatuk.ca
'Leila and Khaled', a novel (Aug. 2026)
New poetry: ‘Fata Morgana’
'Leila and Khaled', a novel (Aug. 2026)
New poetry: ‘Fata Morgana’
Landscape experiments
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Landscape experiments
Landed in Brussels Monday for two months at Passa Porta. Paints and pencils with a side order of poetry.
January 9, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Landed in Brussels Monday for two months at Passa Porta. Paints and pencils with a side order of poetry.
Honoured (Canadian spelling!) to have been invited to inaugurate the Shakir-Ellenbogen Lecture Series at the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn. I'll be talking and reading from my new MS of poems and my novel MS.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Honoured (Canadian spelling!) to have been invited to inaugurate the Shakir-Ellenbogen Lecture Series at the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn. I'll be talking and reading from my new MS of poems and my novel MS.
Finistère, July 2024.
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Finistère, July 2024.
I’ll be reading my newest poems at Watermelon Seeds 2 Festival, a hybrid event broadcast from Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC, Oct. 11. Please join us tomorrow! My reading takes place at 1:25 pm Pacific (4:25 pm Eastern)
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’ll be reading my newest poems at Watermelon Seeds 2 Festival, a hybrid event broadcast from Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC, Oct. 11. Please join us tomorrow! My reading takes place at 1:25 pm Pacific (4:25 pm Eastern)
Looking forward to starting Saeed Teebi’s ‘You Will Not Kill Our Imagination.’
September 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Looking forward to starting Saeed Teebi’s ‘You Will Not Kill Our Imagination.’
Next project for me: artist’s book to be produced this winter during my residency in Brussels. Inspired by Etel Adnan’s leporellos.
September 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Next project for me: artist’s book to be produced this winter during my residency in Brussels. Inspired by Etel Adnan’s leporellos.
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
August 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Some re-reads are more satisfying than others, yes?
August 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Some re-reads are more satisfying than others, yes?
You don't get Trump without Gaza.
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April 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
You don't get Trump without Gaza.
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If I understood how this “dual thermodynamic” so-called shower worked I’d be a lot less inclined to stick my head into a boiling vat of chip oil.
March 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If I understood how this “dual thermodynamic” so-called shower worked I’d be a lot less inclined to stick my head into a boiling vat of chip oil.
Latest episode of the Green Planet Monitor:
February 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Latest episode of the Green Planet Monitor:
Sometimes fragments of unworkable poems work best for watercolours; this one, garden of the shrine of the Báb, Haifa, March 2020.
January 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Sometimes fragments of unworkable poems work best for watercolours; this one, garden of the shrine of the Báb, Haifa, March 2020.
They knew he was senile from day 1.
Explosive investigation about a senile man with billions of dollars of actual explosives at his disposal.
Alon Mizrahi called in in March 2024.
Explosive investigation about a senile man with billions of dollars of actual explosives at his disposal.
Alon Mizrahi called in in March 2024.
December 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM
They knew he was senile from day 1.
Explosive investigation about a senile man with billions of dollars of actual explosives at his disposal.
Alon Mizrahi called in in March 2024.
Explosive investigation about a senile man with billions of dollars of actual explosives at his disposal.
Alon Mizrahi called in in March 2024.
New on my Substack -- on the optics of antisemitism and "white on white crime."
December 11, 2024 at 10:59 PM
New on my Substack -- on the optics of antisemitism and "white on white crime."
