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The event will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe.

Book Event: “Some Things Never Leave You,” by Zeina Azzam, Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. Please join us for a poetry reading and a conversation with the author.

“Azzam writes with heart and with an ear keenly tuned to the rhythms of displacement and loss. Her poems braid sorrow and hope together with the silk thread of her mother’s prayer, “khayr inshallah! Goodness, God willing!” Through her childhood memories in Arab cities to the repeated farewells and departures of exile, Azzam’s poems alternately mourn and celebrate the wonders of life; a child’s fascination with language, the estrangement of a sibling, the sensual pleasures of a resplendent meal, and the promise of renewed love. These poems are “a hedge against hardship,/an incantation” and their music will stay with you.”

—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Kaan and Her Sisters and Water & Salt

Zeina Azzam

Photo credit: Jeff Norman

About Zeina Azzam
She is the poet laureate of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022-2025. Her full-length poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You, was published in July 2023 by Tiger Bark Press. Zeina’s chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, was released in 2021 by The Poetry Box. She holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.