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Ahmad Almallah

Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems "Bitter English" is now available in the Phoenix Poets Series from the University of Chicago Press. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from IUB and an MFA in poetry from Hunter College.

Looking for Shade in Beirut

* corrupt and corrupting I proceed like a chant upon a hill, I decorate: my days with more days oh dreams do not wake, shut eyes! oh how the air can create how the hours blend, all gone! at once …

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