6/14: I Tell Etel Adnan About Other People's Poems
Sunday, June 14, reading at Open Books
featuring Summer Farah, Samia Saliba & Raya Tuffaha, 5pm, free

Summer Farah is a Palestinian writer and critic based in California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2025) and The Hungering Years (Host Publications, 2026). She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
Samia Saliba is a writer from Washington State & a PhD candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity. She is the author of the chapbook conspiracy theories (Game Over Books, 2025) and her poems have appeared in Split This Rock, Apogee, AAWW, Mizna, and elsewhere.
Raya Tuffaha is a Palestinian writer, fight director and actor from Seattle. Her first poetry collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, was published in 2020 and featured in Ms. Magazine's National Poetry Month Roundup. Her chapbook, apocalypse blues, was published two years later. Other poetry publications include Mizna, Phoebe Journal, Button Poetry, The Bellingham Review, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and The Louisville Review. Raya's writing for theatre and opera has been commissioned by Seattle Opera, Artist Trust and 4Culture. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and the British American Drama Academy. She's interested in muscular stories.
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