A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza

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14 MARCH 2021 • By TMR


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The truth about Gaza is that most people don’t know the truth about Gaza.

Hala Alyan is a poet and novelist whose latest book is The Arsonists’ City (Riverhead 2021). She is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by TheNew Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, LitHub, the New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist.

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