Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu and she now lives alone

and she now lives alone in the city

Shitty Craft Club gives us the tools to cope in a creative and fun way without feeling the pressure to make everything perfect

and a squad of crystal-wielding girls is there to save her

Injured and weakened

Police refuse to act

Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu and she now lives aloneFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize Its nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffahas gorgeous and wide ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestines historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and