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Farah Kader

Farah Kader is based in New York City. She received the 2017 Palestinian Youth Movement’s Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship and a 2019 Hopwood Graduate Award for poetry. Farah’s work has been published in Mizna, Orion, Electric Literature, and Narrative. Her most recent published work is in the anthology We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage (Persea Books, 2023), edited by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck.

Poetry

Summer 2024

668 kilohertz, 1936

By Farah Kader

do you remember the sounds before the call to arms?concrete pourers encroaching to curse and laud each unturned stonefollowed by an aerial pursuit when i, the agent, carry this noiseso […]