Author Archives: speekbird
[a thing i like] Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History
When you are idle, she said, when you do not work or do something with your hands, when you do not think about something and instead remain still and without purpose, the wiswas enters your ear and makes a home
[a thing i like] Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History
When you are idle, she said, when you do not work or do something with your hands, when you do not think about something and instead remain still and without purpose, the wiswas enters your ear and makes a home
[a thing i like] george abraham’s al-youm
I am seated in a well-lighted corner of the Student Center at Wayne State University. A few seats away from me is an Arab man with a thick beard and sunglasses despite being inside. I came here by way of
[a thing i like] george abraham’s al-youm
I am seated in a well-lighted corner of the Student Center at Wayne State University. A few seats away from me is an Arab man with a thick beard and sunglasses despite being inside. I came here by way of
[a thing i like] Elaine Raheb’s 2 minute docs
Any relation we have to the earth is mediated by our bodies. Elaine Raheb makes films that reside in the space between land and body. I just watched her short film Massage and Politics. She brings you inside a living
[a thing i like] Elaine Raheb’s 2 minute docs
Any relation we have to the earth is mediated by our bodies. Elaine Raheb makes films that reside in the space between land and body. I just watched her short film Massage and Politics. She brings you inside a living
[A Thing I Like] How to Build A Poem, Especially How to End It
The whole poem should be read and posted here but this excerpt below is important for me as an interesting way to end a poem. The poem itself takes the reader to a scene waiting at the schoolbus stop, and the narrator’s
[A Thing I Like] How to Build A Poem, Especially How to End It
The whole poem should be read and posted here but this excerpt below is important for me as an interesting way to end a poem. The poem itself takes the reader to a scene waiting at the schoolbus stop, and the narrator’s
[a thing i like] Arizona by Dorianne Laux
Originally published by BOAAT Press. I like to think it was published on BOAAT though. Midway through the third stanza, and I try not to do this thing where I punctuate the experience of a poem with my own experiences; it
[a thing i like] Arizona by Dorianne Laux
Originally published by BOAAT Press. I like to think it was published on BOAAT though. Midway through the third stanza, and I try not to do this thing where I punctuate the experience of a poem with my own experiences; it
Making Reading Public
I’m trying to find a place to house all the poems and works that I like. Facebook is one means but Facebook gives me anxiety — it’s the big room filled with all the people you’ve crossed paths with but
Making Reading Public
I’m trying to find a place to house all the poems and works that I like. Facebook is one means but Facebook gives me anxiety — it’s the big room filled with all the people you’ve crossed paths with but
A Collective Action: Read our poetry!
“Be of your time.” My friend, Sarah Daniele, a fellow writer and former classmate, would say this to me, announce it to the class, I imagine even mutter it to herself gracefully in her mid-sleep. It’s a difficult thing to grasp
A Collective Action: Read our poetry!
“Be of your time.” My friend, Sarah Daniele, a fellow writer and former classmate, would say this to me, announce it to the class, I imagine even mutter it to herself gracefully in her mid-sleep. It’s a difficult thing to grasp
Angelou and Basquiat and My Future (Fearless) Babies
Growing up in an immigrant household, I was taught, directly and indirectly, to be afraid of America. Don’t go to the movies — you’ll get raped. Don’t go further than the end of the block — you’ll get kidnapped. Don’t go to
Angelou and Basquiat and My Future (Fearless) Babies
Growing up in an immigrant household, I was taught, directly and indirectly, to be afraid of America. Don’t go to the movies — you’ll get raped. Don’t go further than the end of the block — you’ll get kidnapped. Don’t go to
The Belated: Oscar Grant and Mahmoud Darwish
I added Fruitvale Station to My List on Netflix as soon as it was made available earlier this year. Today, as I sat in my apartment, making soup, reflecting on 2015, feeling some kind of strange newness in the room
The Belated: Oscar Grant and Mahmoud Darwish
I added Fruitvale Station to My List on Netflix as soon as it was made available earlier this year. Today, as I sat in my apartment, making soup, reflecting on 2015, feeling some kind of strange newness in the room
Excerpts from letters to my lovers
Sometimes, when my fire burns, when I love hard, when I feel hard, sometimes my fire blazes and burns the trees around her. That, my love, my sweet sweet love, I am sorry for. I’m going to just assume that
Excerpts from letters to my lovers
Sometimes, when my fire burns, when I love hard, when I feel hard, sometimes my fire blazes and burns the trees around her. That, my love, my sweet sweet love, I am sorry for. I’m going to just assume that
kamelya omayma 