The twelfth poem in our Palestine Advent series is Sermon (For Those Who Survive), by Tariq Luthun.
Sermon (For Those Who Survive), by Tariq Luthun
The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, poet and community organizer Tariq Luthun was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in nearby Dearborn. His debut collection is How The Water Holds Me (Bull City Press, 2020).
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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