Marwa Helal

Apr 3, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Marwa Helal

Notes: 3 Instead of an Arabic footnote, here is a list of artists who inspire, and were with me in the making of this poem ... and so much more (in some kind of order of appearance): Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Elmaz Abinader, Suheir Hammad, Toni Morrison, Tavonne S. Carson, Ava Duvernay, Solmaz Sharif, Monica Sok, Justin Phillip Reed, Xandria Phillips, Charleen McClure, Nabila Lovelace, Ashley M.

Jun 1, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Marwa Helal

Editor's Note: This collection of photographs is part of “When Can I See You Again: The Poetry of Joyce Mansour,” translated by Emilie Moorhouse. You can read the rest of the portfolio in the June 2023 issue. All photographs are copyright © Marion Kalter. Originally Published: June 1st, 2023

Apr 3, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Marwa Helal |Diego Baez |Dionne Brand |Layla Benitez-James

I can’t bring myself to think of disaster as a single, or even a handful, of fixed peaks on a graph. The graph wavers and caves into itself. Who gets to define disaster? Who writes and measures it? Elissa Washuta writes of disaster, in her essay “Apocalypse Logic,” as an ongoing state of settler coloniality: “Apocalypse has very little to do with the end of the world.” Disaster has long been a continuum through which racialized bodies move against, in spite of.