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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    A Poetics of the Unbearable (opens the original)

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    I’ve spent the past few months as Wasafiri’s International Writer in Residence! You can read my poem Antioquia on their website and my poem Psychogeography in the print issue (and here’s a video of me reading it). My final piece is this essay a

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    girls that never diary: week 81 (opens the original)

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    GIRLS THAT NEVER DIARY is a (temporary) series where I try, once again, to create a daily writing practice. This time I’m also trying to reset some of my associations around writing, because my brain is tired of only wrestling with things that hurt me whenever I sit down to write. I’ve started writing these little diaries in my notes app, and they have mostly been helpful in that they get me to write something, and also in that they help me, when I reread them, answer the question for myself abo

  3. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    girls that never diary: week 80 (opens the original)

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    GIRLS THAT NEVER DIARY is a (temporary) series where I try, once again, to create a daily writing practice. This time I’m also trying to reset some of my associations around writing, because my brain is tired of only wrestling with things that hurt me whenever I sit down to write. I’ve started writing these little diaries in my notes app, and they have mostly been helpful in that they get me to write something, and also in that they help me, when I reread them, answer the question for myself abo

  4. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    ode to homework (opens the original)

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    Last summer in Medellín, I was chatting with a fellow Arabophone poet who told me that my poems give the impression that I don’t speak Arabic. I reread them now and see how that’s true. But I do speak Arabic, always have, and my Arabic is fine, just deeply colloquial.The grief I was trying to g

  5. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    girls that never diary: week 79 (opens the original)

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    GIRLS THAT NEVER DIARY is a (temporary) series where I try, once again, to create a daily writing practice. This time I’m also trying to reset some of my associations around writing, because my brain is tired of only wrestling with things that hurt me whenever I sit down to write. I’ve started writing these little diaries in my notes app, and they have mostly been helpful in that they get me to write something, and also in that they help me, when I reread them, answer the question for myself abo

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