I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrao.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’ll be performing a handful of Palestinian poems at the Columbus Arts Festival this year! Come see me on the Word Is Art Stage on Saturday, June 8th, at 2pm. :)
Other powerhouse poets like Ty Williams will be there too, so don’t miss it!
Join me and a group of powerhouse skaters and writers as we entertain you with stories of life on wheels at the Columbus Arts Festival!
Word is Art: Storytelling
Saturday, June 8
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Word is Art & Acoustic Lounge
I, along with a stellar lineup of other queer Ohio poets, will be doing a Pride Month reading at Two Dollar Radio HQ. Come see us!
When: Friday, June 28th at 8pm
Where: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters at 1124 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43206
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
Join author and skater Mandy Shunnarah for the launch of Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America's Heartland, out from Belt Publishing on July 16th, 2024. The book covers the history of skating in the Midwest, which is part cultural history, part travelogue, and part memoir.
There will be a reading by the author with a Q&A afterward.
When: Tuesday, July 16th, at 8pm
Where: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters at 1124 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43206
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Song of My Softening by Omotara James.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Obit by Victoria Chang.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Your Emergency Contact Has Had an Emergency by Chen Chen.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Rose Quartz by Sasha taqwsɘblu LaPointe.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On by Franny Choi.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
I Am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
This month’s book is The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll have some poetry in “Text Me When You Get Home,” an exhibit featuring text art by Palestinian writers and artists with ties to Ohio.
The show will run June 7-23 and the Ohio State University Hopkins Hall Gallery hours are M-F 11-4.
There will be a reception on Thursday June 8 from 4-6pm where I’ll be reading poems. Come out for a fun time and snacks!
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll have some poetry in “Text Me When You Get Home,” an exhibit featuring text art by Palestinian writers and artists with ties to Ohio.
The show will run June 7-23 and the Ohio State University Hopkins Hall Gallery hours are M-F 11-4.
Starting in June, I’m leading the poetry book club at Prologue Bookshop!
This month’s book is Above Ground by Clint Smith.
We’ll be meeting every month on the first Sunday at 6pm in-store. If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area I’d love to have you join! Sign up here. :)
I’ve got a poem in the latest issue of Yellow Arrow Journal and will be reading it during the virtual launch! I’d love for you to check it out and hear me alongside some other fantastic writers.
Come and join us in celebration of the launch of the most recent issue of the Yellow Arrow Journal, KINDLING (Vol. VIII, No. 1), with a live virtual reading!
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-kindling-release-healing-world-spark
Matilda Young, our wonderful guest editor, will be joined by some of the included authors to share their beautiful pieces about advocacy-community care and the spark it takes to set the world ablaze. Join us at 8:00 PM EST on June 1st on Zoom to enjoy a night where our authors make their voices and stories heard.
Zoom link here: us06web.zoom.us/j/86421692261
Let us know you’ll be there at fb.me/e/RMrS7pvs
Purchase your own paperback copy of KINDLING on our website (also available in wholesale!) at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-kindling-paperback
Find out more about KINDLING and Yellow Arrow Journal at yellowarrowpublishing.com/about-yellow-arrow-journal
Curious about zines? Whether you’ve never made one before or you’re an old pro, this workshop is for you!
You’ll learn about the history of zines, including their various formats and content, then you’ll make your own. Zines are often political in nature, so this workshop will focus on social justice as it relates to zine-making.
The workshop is free and in-person at the Old Worthington Library, but registration is required. Get all the details here! :)
I'll be at two tables at the Columbus Art Book Fair May 13-14th! It's a fun festival with a lot of talented folks, so come out for the books and artists.
I'll have a table with copies of my zines, including all 3 issues of Kill the Gatekeeper and a ✨brand new✨ poetry zine that I can't wait to debut. I'll also be at the table for Gazala Projects, which is an art gallery highlighting Arab creators. We'll be previewing our exhibit Text Me When You Get Home: Poetry and text art by Palestinian creatives with Ohio connections!
Following the Columbus Art Book Fair, the exhibit will be traveling to Urban Arts Space Columbus, then to the Gazala Projects headquarters in Gettysburg, Ohio. I'll be performing poetry live at various times and the text will be shown in a sculpture garden-esque display when I'm not there. Stay tuned for more info on the traveling exhibit.
More info on Columbus Art Book Fair is here.
Guess what! I’m not the only one with a skate book coming out.
Collective Chaos: A Roller Derby Team Memoir by Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears is hot off the press from Ohio University Press. The book launch is at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters and I’m moderating the Q&A!
Come see us at 1124 Parsons Ave. Columbus, OH 43206 on Tuesday, April 11th, at 8pm. There’ll be tasty vegan food, yummy drinks, and a good time had by all because Sam is a comedian on top of being a talented writer and skater.
This is an online event, so you don’t even have to leave your house!
Hear me read some poetry about being a Palestinian living in diaspora and tell the story of my family immigrating from Ramallah in the West Bank to Birmingham, Alabama. We’ll cover forced assimilation, generational trauma, Arabs and race, and all kinds of fun stuff because I like to make you laugh while telling you the world sucks. :)
It’s a free event sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace - Central Ohio chapter. Register here for the Zoom link and click here to add this to your Facebook events calendar.
What are you doing on Saturday, August 13th? If you’re in central Ohio, you should totally come to the Street Cat Zine Fest!
Now in its sixth year, SCZF is a celebration of zines and other handmade arts. Zine makers like myself will have our zines for sale, there will be other artists and makers set up with their wares, and there’ll be live music from Ben Davis Jr., Kimmy Vicky, J.I.B., and C.D. Bailey.
Admission is free and the festival will be held at the Scioto Township Hall at 164 South Watt Street in Chillicothe, Ohio, from 12pm to 6pm on Saturday, August 13th.
I’ll be there with all three volumes of Kill the Gatekeeper. If you can’t make it, the zines are also available in my Etsy shop.
I’ve been a part of the group See Jane Write for a little over a decade now and I owe all my freelance know-how to the founder, Javacia Harris Bowser. That’s why I’m pumped to be doing a nonfiction book proposal workshop for the SJW online conference and membership drive!
The See Jane Write Summit 2022 is a full week of workshops and speakers that takes place mostly online.
The full schedule is available here. Note that you have to be a See Jane Write member to attend my workshop. I can tell you from firsthand experience that the investment, which isn’t even that much, is well worth it.
A group of writers who skate (writer-skaters, skater-writers, whatever you want to call us) will be reading on the Word Is Art stage at the Columbus Arts Festival on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 4pm to 5pm ET.
I’ll be reading an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Midwest Shreds: Skaters and Skateparks in Middle America!
Learn more and find the festival map at https://www.columbusartsfestival.org/
The Columbus Anthology from Belt Publishing will be officially out soon! Come see me and some of the other contributors to the anthology at the launch party at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters on Thursday, April 2nd, from 6-9pm in Columbus, Ohio.
Hope to see you there!
I’ve had the honor of sharing stories onstage at Story Club Columbus several times and I’m thrilled to be invited back for the February 2020 show!
The theme is “all kinds of love,” which means it’s not your typical Valentine’s Day show. I’ll be telling a story about my relationship with my best friend, Ethan, who’s been my ride-or-die BFF since we were 5 years old. You’ll laugh, you might cry, and you’ll definitely be entertained.
If you’re around Columbus, Ohio, I’d love to see you at the show! It’ll be on Tuesday, February 4th at 8pm at The Rambling House, located at 310 E Hudson St, Columbus, Ohio 43202.
Here’s the Facebook event with more info and so you can RSVP. Hope to see you there!
