[Political] Dialogue
There were two worlds then, the one we lived in and the one she invented, where my aunt remarried and nobody ever went to America
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, POETRY and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and the Crab Orchard Series, and her debut novel Salt Houses won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her second novel, The Arsonists' City, was published in 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Enter your email address to receive notifications for author Hala Alyan
Success!
Confirmation link sent to your email to add you to notification list for author Hala Alyan
More in this series
Corrective State
The people behind bars are captives of war / The people stolen into camps and cages / speak it plain
Oct 26, 2020
Reimagining Light
The water flows through hollow bones and returns / as a song. It sounds familiar in the beginning / Then always changes.
Nov 02, 2020
Ashes at Kande Beach, Malawi
Everything is an elegy these days, all chipped rings, / clipped wings.
Jun 29, 2021