Aesthetics, or, land acknowledgment goes here, or, offhand, or, inside jokes, or Les Miz surviving three hours on five chords, or, starving, or, the Americans have named kettling, or, national endowment, or, drag regalia might only be a smile, or, cross-eyed in grief, or playing with abandon, or, is everyone alive is what i'm asking, or, blackouts end action, or, incite it, or, if this were France, oh if this were France, or, the deadly exchange, or, the point, or, poetry circles with kidnapped fathers, or, aid distribution, or, the Americans have named boycotts, or, early intermission, or, doing some resisting from over here, or, a blade for a smile, or, paper crowns, or, every man will be a king, or, separating, or, the wings, or, what was your first experience of performance, or, what you will, or, end of play
Raya Tuffaha is a Palestinian writer, fight director, and actor from Seattle. Poetry collections: To All the Yellow Flowers (Golden Antelope Press, 2020), apocalypse blues (2022). Other commissions/publications include Seattle Opera, Mizna, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Phoebe Journal, Ms. Magazine, and Button Poetry. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and the British American Drama Academy. She's interested in muscular stories.
