Conversations with Arabs – The Good Arabs – underwater – In the Heart of the Heart of More Garbage – yt ppl think I’m yt like – When I lived on Acadie – Reading Wanting in Arabic – thirty-one lines for you – They Used to Call Her – This Is Not a Poem – Changing That Which Seems Immovable – The Tradition pt. II – In the Lion’s Mouth – Can We Breathe When It Is All Garbage
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet living in Tio’tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory (Montreal). Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, carte blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, and elsewhere. They participated in the Banff Centre’s ‘Centering Ourselves’ BIPOC residency, and they were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @theonlyelitareq.
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