summer farah

a background of scalloped layers resembling a gradient in different shade of teal “Crips for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong, Forever” in bubbly fuzzy black text “$400 Matching Campaign” in Knock Out Cruiserweight font A cartoon illustration of a Palestinian woman with dark curly hair and large round glasses sitting on the floor with her feet in the air, wearing black boots and dark pants, a yellow jacket and a black and white kufiya, at a laptop. "Illustration: Jessica Jiang” "Palestinian American writer Summer Farah, author of The Hungering Years, is offering to match $400USD in donations to our project." Three orange-, blood-orange- grapefruit-coloured SIM cards, the second one upside down, both with green and white kufiya patterns inside where the SIM chip is. Inside the last SIM card is a green QR code.

s for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong, Forever” in bubbly fuzzy black text “Where to Donate: Chuffed: bit.ly/eSimsRUs E-transfer: cripsforesimsforgaza Venmo: bit.ly/venmo4esims PayPal (UK): http://bit.ly/esimsUK Send donation screenshots to cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com. ” in Knock Out Cruiserweight font  Three orange-, blood-orange- grapefruit-coloured SIM cards, the second one upside down, both with green and white kufiya patterns inside where the SIM chip is. Inside the last SIM card is a green QR code. 

The wonderful @summ.bsky.social has generously offered this matching campaign for Crips for eSims for Gaza, which provides eSims to Palestinians in Gaza currently under siege.

Donate:
bit.ly/eSimsRUs

Send screenshots to our email:

cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com

#ConnectingGaza

picture of a rectangular object wrapped in brown paper with an “H” stamped on it and tied with a purple thread. next to it is a post card with the cover image of Summer Farah’s THE HUNGERING YEATS

the rectangular object has been revealed to be the poetry collection of THE HUNGERING YEARS by Summer Farah. next to it is the post card and a purple unsharpened pencil

BEST BOOK EVER CAME INNNN

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the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My Longing is Dictated by Elsewhere: An Interview with Summer Farah In Summer Farah’s The Hungering Years, things as disparate as Etel Adnan, The Little Mermaid, and Supernatural, among others, come together in Farah’s lyrical, meditative articulations of place, di…

Vika Mujumdar interviewed me for Liminal Transit Review about The Hungering Years :) liminaltransitreview.com/interviews/m...

happy pub day to ME! here is another mitski poem, up at @miznaarabart.bsky.social 💜 mizna.org/mizna-online...

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah, a postcard of the cover, and a purple pencil that says I TELL ETEL ADNAN

SUMMER BOOK!!!!!!!!!! OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

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I appreciate the formal coverage the book has gotten of course but there is something just really special about seeing a notebook spread type thing. It feels like the pages I write in excitement before the agony of a word doc.

notes on summer farah's THE HUNGERING YEARS scattered thoughts on an extraordinary text

My sweet friend Umang has a lovely reaction-type write-up about The Hungering Years 💜💜 substack.com/home/post/p-...

There is no way to properly express how beautiful this book is in person:

Thank you Brandon 😭😭😭😭😭😭💜

thank you :)

Today, Mizna celebrates the release of beloved contributor Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection, The Hungering Years, out now with Host Publications. Just as with her recent chapbook i could die today and live again, Farah’s debut weaves intertextually across genres and media, mixing figures such as Etel Adnan and Mitski in this excerpt and throughout the book. Here, as habibetna Jess Rizkallah’s blurb says, “This book a mycelium network of memories that aren’t static, unless it’s the static you reach your hands through before falling into the tv screen. Everything is connected, everything is romantic, everything is cinema. This collection changes what / how I consider. It is unafraid of hysteria.” Given Farah’s years of loving labor to our community, reviewing SWANA books, starting pathbreaking critical poetics columns, and contributing in in/visible ways to Palestinian movement work, it makes sense that her debut is generous in its ability to bring us into the wide, capacious world of her reading, and furthermore, inspire more radical, relational modes of literacy therein. Just as Etel Adnan is a north star for many of us, Summer Farah is someone to whom I’ve turned in my most difficult times, as editor, reader, poet, critic, organizer, lover of all things Zelda, and above all, friend. We hope that everyone will join us in generously, loudly uplifting this luminary debut of one of the most important rising poets alive today. —George Abraham, Editor-at-Large

Crying about George's introduction of course !!!

happy pub day to ME! here is another mitski poem, up at @miznaarabart.bsky.social 💜 mizna.org/mizna-online...

It's so great!!

Tenets ?

Have done a SPN themed event for my book now I need to do something with food and perhaps Mitski and then I will have captured the core tenants

idk hwo to emphasize like. i love being a WEIRD GIRL. this was so indulgent !!!!!!!! it was framed as a craft talk but i was mostly just having fun !!!!!!!!!!!! i want to do it forever !!!

In many ways you were....The spirit. Of my friends. Flows through me

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

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AFTER MOUNT TAMALPAIS, I TELL ETEL ADNAN ABOUT SUPERNATURAL I make paintings and watercolors of Tamalpais. Again and again. Why do I insist? Am I trying to hold some image, to capture some meaning, to assert its presence, to measure myself to its timelessness, to fight, or to accept? —Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais I understand, I tell her, the desire to not only return but to be consumed. I have had obsessions, I have been made small by those obsessions, I wonder if you would agree it is possible for something to be absolute but still unseen. I was Cassandra, once. I wanted dearly to go to the mountain. Instead of cliches, I design my pulse to loneliness anew. It’s different than ten years ago—I go outside, now, take its contradiction with me. Oh the most painful love-story of them all! These gaps between comprehension! I could never forget, no matter how many times they beg me to. The mountain was there before us and it will be there after. Yes, a return; each journey wrought another history, each day I try to capture its form; why do I insist? In lieu of a paintbrush, I sew my voice in its throat. In the Beginning, there was Blood, Horror, Myth, Obsession; and then there was Love, there was, I swear, when the static spilled! again and again, our eyes stained with its evidence, We find new proof uncovered on every return. We were all Cassandra, once, young and hysterical, oh, I hope you’ll understand I take it so seriously when I say the violence shifted subjects. Oh, we screamed! we screamed! We swore our eyes were true! Audience becomes the blood, the horror, the myth, the static, Again, and again, you said, again, and again, I say, again, again.

here is one of the poems i read

critically i felt safe enough to do this because everyone was masked and we had a huge air purifier going !!!! i love when people follow through with requested disability accommodations !!!

Summer giggling while Supernatural 15.18 plays on a screen behind her

Summer with exasperated expression as supernatural plays behind her

Summer covering her face while Castiel does his 15.18 love confession

yesterday one of my greatest dreams came true !! forced a room full of people to watch specifically curated clips from supernatural & teach them about destiel & my hysteria & poetry. here are my various faces

ponw is a very important outlet to my writing life & so it means a lot to be included !!! <3 <3 <3

The Hungering Years Cover alongside text: The Hungering Years by Summer Farah (Host, Feb.) has an electric pulse both steady and sudden, dense like the tightness of the back and jaw and vivid like their impossible release. This debut full-length collection accepts and measures the price of self-knowledge, stories, and laughter, to be inside of thoughts or water or horizon: museums are marked by steals and body counts, the names of things declare their control. Colonial tolls reorient the costs of borders and Zionism when the speaker, so in love with much read, heard, said, softly asks: “I wonder about the life stolen from me. Would I love what I love if I loved it from Palestine?” For Farah, to remember before is to remember the land itself, time and space wed in alive, exquisite poems.

happy to see my book included in poetry northwest's winter favorites :)

here is One mitski poem

it is out in two days !

i signed a billion books in the last few days :) thank you to everyone who has ordered a copy of THE HUNGERING YEARS so far

“My loves. You are the only people / I’d surrender my softness to.”

— Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social)

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This poem appeared in Jellyfish Magazine, Issue 16, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

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