Moheb Soliman presents two poems from <em>HOMES</em>

Moheb Soliman is an Egyptian poet based in Minneapolis, MN.

8 MAY 2024 • By Moheb Soliman
Moheb Soliman’s HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corolla past exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, seeking to inhabit an entire region as home. Against the backdrop of environmental destruction and a history of colonial oppression, the vitality of Soliman’s language brings a bold ecopoetic lens to bear on the relationship between transience and belonging in the world’s largest, most porous borderland.


 

Moheb Soliman

In Ontario but far from Superior or
these missed parts

In Ontario but far from Superior or these missed parts


Homes is available from Coffeehouse Press.
Homes is available from Coffeehouse Press.

 

Geneva State Park no sight of the lake,
Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH

Geneva State Park no sight of the lake, Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH

Moheb Soliman

Moheb Soliman Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. He has presented writing, performance, installation, and video work at diverse literary, art, and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from the Banff Centre, Pillsbury House,... Read more

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