Loving in the face of violence, danger, and distress is an act of defiance, as demonstrated in Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s achingly beautiful poem “Dukka”.  The Palestinian American writer spotlights seven aspects of love in action — between father and newborn, for example, a journalist and her audience, a pair of intimates dining out. She shows us the “million ways to love” flowing through her community and cascading through generations, centuries, millennia, as inexorable and constant as the ocean and as bright and surprising as a rare meteor shower. 
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/something-about-living-national-book-award-winner-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/36ae252ef2fed3c9?ean=9781629222738&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">Something About Living</a> (The University of Akron Press, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kaan-and-her-sisters-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/71bcf0be71824c9f?ean=9781949487145&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kaan & Her Sisters</a> (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/water-salt-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/05e869445c8ff920?ean=9781597090292&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">Water & Salt</a> (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention of the 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks: <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/arab-in-newsland-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/6fc8ae7bdda20ed9?ean=9780998631493&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arab in Newsland</a>, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, and <a href="https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/letters-from-the-interior" rel="noopener noreferrer">Letters from the Interior</a>, finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. 
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