Conversations with Arabs – home = garbage – ابن – don’t let me be lonely – the space between you & us – The Tradition – Maa al Salama – arguileh breath – fucked in english – Who Gives Us the Permission? – It was – Grey – 850 million tonnes – We Are Not at Home Here – & if my people – The Cycle
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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