7-8 p.m. ET Thursday, October 24, 2024
Truth to Power: A Reading for Remembrance
Join us for an evening of poetry and reflection. Four poets will share work that speak to justice, honoring resistance and the memories we carry.
About the Readers
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a mixed race (Lebanese/white settler) writer, translator and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke. Their first book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press in 2020, and their second book, The Good Arabs, published by Metonymy Press in 2021, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards, the Khayrallah Prize honorary mention, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation, Dandelion Daughter, of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même was published in Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy, they are editing El Ghourabaa, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers, forthcoming Spring 2024.
Kamelya Omayma Youssef, author of A book with a hole in it, is a text and performance worker who teaches, edits and organizes events. Her work is published by 1080Press, Mizna, Sukoon, the Margins, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.
Rasha Almulaiki is the Founder and Principal of ADALA PR Agency LLC, a boutique public relations firm based in Detroit. Drawing from her experience as a media relations manager in the City of Detroit Mayor’s Office, where she also leads communications for the Office of Mobility Innovation and the Office of Sustainability, Rasha has built ADALA PR on a foundation of strategic storytelling. With a background as a movement journalist, featured in outlets such as The Michigan Chronicle, Metro Times Detroit, and The Arab American News, Rasha is dedicated to elevating narratives that intersect with community, race, gender and politics. Additionally, as a poet and essayist, Rasha surveys human grief, purpose-finding and relationship accountabilities.
Yasmine Roukiaya is an All-from-else-where American by way of Lebanon, Appalachia, whatsapp & dried out pens. Her work examining the nexus of being and bending in between can be found in MQR, Mizna, The Black Warrior Review, The Margins, Gulf Coast & elsewhere. She lives in Dearborn with her two sons.
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