Fusion #12: Archive
Palestinian poets and poets from the back issues of the Schooner collaborate on a special portfolio of poetry exploring the theme of “Archive”…

Palestinian Suite
Introduction
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Four Illustrations
Nidal El-Khairy
“… I offer you this Palestinian archive of poems, a record of repeated exiles, of ongoing Nakba, a collection of poems that scrutinize the language rife with hierarchies aimed at undoing us.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, from the introduction
Inheritance
When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America
Before Gaza, a Fall
Immortal Sea, Your Sea
“It Was Not Yesterday But Today”
THE FIGS ARE MOLDING
Dear […]
POEM WITH GENOCIDE IN THE TITLE
Untitled with a line from Etel Adnan
Let The Naïve Know How We Envy Them
Sun Theater Sonnets
Abjadarian* in Autumn
SEA LEGS
A Certain Resilience

Schooner Suite
Introduction
Siwar Masannat
Five Artworks
Sarah Rowe
“Archives and archiving can offer poetic material and process for articulating presences and histories and trajectories tethered to truth.”
Siwar Masannat, from the introduction