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George Abraham

George Abraham

George Abraham

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence. (Source)

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Poems by George Abraham

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ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine by George Abraham

December 10, 2023
“FREE PALESTINE will name the violence // & never the resurrection, like FREE PALESTINE hasn’t survived impossible / histories to get here.” — George Abraham
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the ghosts of the dead sea rewrite the history of drowning by George Abraham

December 2, 2023
“[ say Gaza ] sink [ i failed ] sin [ say ocean ] sin [ i could not ]” — George Abraham
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apology by George Abraham

October 22, 2022
“forgive the bodies i swallowed like broken teeth: the knees i spent trying to summon god in my own mouth:” — George Abraham

Poems curated by George Abraham

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My death is not a song by Mohammed Moussa

August 6, 2025
“Remember not my name / But the names of my kids / who you killed while / they were carrying my death” — Mohammed Moussa