The fourteenth poem in our Palestine Advent series is Ekphrasis On “The New York Times” Headline “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom” by Emily Khilfeh.
Ekphrasis On “The New York Times” Headline “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom”, by Emily Khilfeh.
Emily Khilfeh is a Palestinian American poet from Seattle. She lives in Phoenix.
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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