The seventh poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Hala Alyan.
Siri as Mother, by Hala Alyan.
Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan was born in Carbondale, Illinois, and grew up in Kuwait, Oklahoma, Texas, Maine, and Lebanon. She is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books, 2019).
With thanks to Chris Rose and Natalie Jabbar for inspiring this idea.
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