# Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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lena khalaf tuffaha is an essayist, and translator. She is co-founder and treasurer of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of three works of poetry: Letters from the Interior (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt (Red Hen Press); and the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland (Two Sylvias Press). Khalaf Tuffaha is the recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Love Is An Action
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, a poet, essayist, and translator, works tirelessly to break down language and thoughtfully craft it to match the human condition. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (UAkron, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron P…
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Poems for Company - July 28th, 2025
“Exile and Return”: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine? Today’s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Upon Arrival” and “Immigrant,” from Water and Salt (…
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: "Correspondence with Apologies"
Recorded by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 16, 2025. www.poets.org
January 2
By Zakaria Mohammed
Tr. by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — Dukka
Loving in the face of violence, danger, and distress is an act of defiance, as demonstrated in Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s achingly beautiful poem “Dukka”. The Palestinian American writer spotlights seven aspects of love in action — between father and newborn, for example, a journalist and her audience,…
Something About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with So Meyer
On this episode of the PalFest podcast, we mark the launch of the UK edition of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something About Living, published by the 87 Press, at the London Review Bookshop.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is one of the most influential Palestinian poets working in English today. Her collections hav…
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and So Mayer: Something About Living
ena Khalaf Tuffaha was born in Seattle but grew up in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and her poetry reflects on her Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage and on her experience as a first-generation American immigrant. In Something About Living (the87press), winner of the National Book Award in 2024,…
Laura Da’: No Easy Thing to See Deeply
Laura Da’ selects poems that report back to us with forthright courage She introduces James Welch speaking with a ringing sense of sovereignty (“In My First Hard Springtime”), Saretta Morgan crossing thresholds of space and perspective (“Consequences upon arrival (i)”), and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reso…
Something About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with So Meyer
On this episode of the PalFest podcast, we mark the launch of the UK edition of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something About Living, published by the 87 Press, at the London Review Bookshop.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is one of the most influential Palestinian poets working in English today. Her collections …
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