Poets & Writers

Threa Almontaser

Graywolf Press

(Academy of American Poets First Book Award)

The first hope was no bigger than an eyelash,

was born in the middle of war, where we were told prayer can change the fate of anything. Even dirt.

—from “Operation Restoring Hope”

HOW IT BEGAN: It was less a sudden

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