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ALT Graphic of an event with a drawn image of a book open on the top right and microphone with the wire laced around on the bottom right. The text reads on the top center: Gabrielle Bates In the center is an image in black and white of the poet Gabrielle Bates With text at the bottom that reads: Mushaira, 24th Oct. Cafe Oto And logo of arts council england and the87press on the bottom right corner
ALT Graphic of an event with a drawn image of a book open on the top left and microphone with the wire laced around on the bottom right. The text reads on the top center: Mushaira, a night of poetry, music and food. In the center are images of all the poets features. With text at the bottom that reads: 24th Oct. 7pm door. Cafe Oto And logo of arts council england and the87press on the bottom right corner
ALT GABRIELLE BATES New Baroque Derangement I was conceived in a restless biome, a riot of wisteria. Unguarded. Bitch of blue. A woman pushed her tongue into my mouth and it was good weather. There were spirals, spirals at the heart as pure lasso—ice pure loss skipping liquid, straight to air I could and couldn't bare because I was and wasn't. Combing a lone shore there under the moonlit backwash of receding waves, all that grit in my gums and oceanscape's overlappings, I am telling you in that fading cyanic I saw your faces. In the sands. I saw. Every person I might have been or birthed I could not reach but I could see. A consciousness I'd once called mine clambering into a swan boat. And high above, and far around, the rope of air caught music's meat. I saw what seeing used to mean.
ALT Fall 2025 Poetry Office Hours with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha at Open Books: A Poem Emporium Drop-in or by appointment Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (UAkron, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award, Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention for the 2018 Arab American Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize, and Letters from the Interior (Diode, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com | IG: @lenatuffaha All appointments are free (with a tip jar option, if you want to use it)
