6 p.m. ET Thursday, November 20, 2025

Writing Fellows Reading + Open Mic

In-person at AANM
Free with RSVP; Register here

Join us for an Open Mic Night, featuring the 2025 graduates of the AANM Writing Fellows program! In celebration of the students completing the program, they will be sharing work from their fellowship. Following, we are creating a space for writers and musicians to share their work. Featured readers include Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Noor Hindi and Tariq Luthun. Writers of poetry, prose, music and more are also welcome to sign up and perform. Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis!

About the Readers

Kamelya Omayma Youssef is a text, performance and education worker. She is the author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway, 2022, received Carolyn Bush Award). Her poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming with 1080 Press, Gulf Coast, Sukoon, Poem-a-Day, Mizna, AAWW’s The Margins, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, The Poetry Project, Room Project, Cordite Poetry Review, among others. Her work has also been featured in the anthologies Beyond Memory (University of Arkansas Press) and Hatha Baladuna (Wayne State University Press). In 2021, she co-wrote and acted in Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant, a speculative metatranslation set in three time periods with Mariam Bazeed and A Host of People. She also hosts workshops and open mics and performances with her friends. Hailing from Lebanon, she is based between New York and Dearborn/Detroit, and floats between there and elsewhere. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.

Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is calling on you to join the global fight for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Anywhere and everywhere you are, you can disrupt, advocate, speak out and refuse in small and big ways. Revolution until freedom.

Hindi is a Palestinian American poet. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022), was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. She is the co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. (Haymarket Books, 2025). Follow her on Instagram @NoorKHindi.

Tariq Luthun invites you to join him in demanding an end to the siege on Gaza and the illegal military occupation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. Luthun — a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer and award-winning poet — calls for the right of return and land back for indigenous peoples globally. The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, he is a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow and was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Roseburg Fellowship. Luthun received his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and his work has earned him such honors as being named Best of the Net, in addition to residencies and fellowships through the Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, and The Watering Hole. Luthun currently serves as Vice President of The Offing Literary Magazine’s Board of Directors. His first collection of poetry, How the Water Holds Me, was awarded Editor’s Choice by Bull City Press.

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