Poetry Reading and Talk: "Heaven Looks Like Us"
You are invited to an upcoming poetry reading and book talk with the two award-winning poets, George Abraham and Noor Hindi, who recently published their urgent edited collection Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Press, 2025). This new collection brings together the work of Palestinian poets from across the world. Books will be available for purchase.
Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian American poet. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022), was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. She is the co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. (Haymarket Books, 2025).
George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025), which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award.
Below is a brief description from the publisher of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry:
HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US is a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. And yet, editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside other themes that are also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. This anthology dares to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mohammed El-Kurd, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Hala Alyan, Fady Joudah, and Heba Abu Nada, and many other voices, both established and ascending.
