I'm extremely honored and excited to be reading at the book launch for Hala Alyan's latest collection, HIJRA.
Hala is a Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including Guernica, The Missouri Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is also the author of ATRIUM (Three Rooms Press), which was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award, and FOUR CITIES, released by Black Lawrence Press. Interview
The Pedestal - carnival
Marsh Hawk Press Review - Think Bib on Fire or Privilege
Poetrybay - Over a Tureen of Mauve Meaning
Sensitive Skin - Die Harder Inside
FLAPPERHOUSE - Kiss with Recorder and Killer
Marsh Hawk Press Review - While the City Sleeps / Two Bars, A Wing, Medicinal / Small Island with Wildlife
Sensitive Skin - Bunny Embers
"Jane's poem [Bunny Embers] is freakin powerful! This thing moves like On the Road, gas pedal jammed to the floor! - Ron Kolm
Marsh Hawk Press Review - Five Against the House
The Nervous Breakdown - Within This Progression, Warmth
"What Jane does is make use of the most artfully curated words yet curiously paralleled and joined in a mind-altering, heart-pulling test of spirit and tolerance. With a background in the arts she is skillful in conjuring an image. If this were a dramatization of a 1980s counterculture event, she could have been played by Judy Davis in a Post Thatcher Cinematic British film directed by Stephen Frears." - Kofi Forsun, PoetryBay