The twenty-second poem in our Palestine Advent series is Lemon Blossoms, by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Lemon Blossoms, by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American writer of Palestinian, Syrian, and Jordanian heritage. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award, and Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize. Her chapbook, Letters from the Interior (2019), is available from Diode Editions. Her recent book Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024) is a Winner of the 2024 National Book Award.
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
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I am a poet and writing tutor. For 24 years I worked 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, was published in 2023 by Blue Diode Press. Plymbridge, a new pamphlet, is available now from Worple Press. My final research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, was Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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Absolutely heartbreaking.
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