summer سمر فرح

the hungering years lives ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ my book released on etel adnan's birthday. I had been writing it for many years before I knew it was a book I was writing, but responding to her work made it all come together. I am so lucky to read her and live her and share my love with all oc you. I will say lots of things in the next lifetime about how wonderful my experience has been thus far but mostly I am grateful for my team at host, claire and annar and @lowtechlaura , grateful for my sweet friends, grateful to every bookstore and school and space that let me read poems in front of them in the past and grateful to every space that lets me read in the future. thank you maya and elina for kicking off los angeles with me, thank you alienated majesty and we luv video for hosting me in austin. thank you Lena for writing my intro thank you Jessi and Wendy and Fariha and Hanif for writing my blurbs and thank you to everyone who reads the book. I am hoping to have fun with it all. Please have fun with me. 🧿❤️

honestly never thought I would write enough poems that I liked for long enough to be able to put together a full-length collection? but I did & it's happening & sweet folks at @hostpublications are publishing it 💜🧿 we got poems abt food n all the drama there we got poems abt obsessively listening to mitski poems abt hanging out w yr friends poems communicating w literary ancestors poems abt being a lil crazy & poems about supernatural n a lot more...thank u for paying attention to me I hope u all like it 💐 see u in february 2026

Come join us for a special book launch & reading of Summer Farah’s debut poetry book “The Hungering Years” at on Friday, April 17th at 6pm! Free + RSVP required, link in bio! The event will include readings by Summer Farah, Jazz Sufi, and Giovanna Lomanto ✨ Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase and to be signed after the event 📚 Masks required + low scent space. Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid of asking the right questions,” Farah admits. But through intimate conversations with fellow Arab-American writer and literary ancestor Etel Adnan, this work finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment? Though the answers are elusive, what steps into the light is a collective of friends whose genuine care and companionship anchor these poems through their spiraling search. More information about the event and our wonderful readers in the Eventbrite in our bio!

Hellllllllo poets of the internet! We’re back this week with an episode featuring @bordersbookstore talking about repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitation. Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of the chapbook, i could die today and live again, poems inspired by the legend of Zelda and published by Game Over Books in 2004. Her debut collection, The Hungering Years is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She’s calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day. Find the episode in our bio

💖 Dreamiest time celebrating THE HUNGERING YEARS with Summer Farah, Sara Bawany, & FUVK! 💖 Thank you to Alienated Majesty for the beautiful space & AJ Miranda for photographing! The full album is available for viewing on our Flickr (link in bio). 💖 THE HUNGERING YEARS is out now & available at your local bookstore thanks to @asterism_books !!!

The wonderful @bordersbookstore has generously offered this matching campaign for @Crisps4eSims , which provides eSims to Palestinians in Gaza currently under siege. With the escalation of violence, g-side, and war funded by our tax dollars, we are never completely helpless. Every dollar counts. Thank you so much Summer and don't forget to get a copy of The Hungering Years. 💕💕💕 Donate: http://bit.ly/eSimsRUs Send screenshots of donations to our email cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com #ConnectingGaza

💜🌻💜 Happy Pub Day to THE HUNGERING YEARS & poet Summer Farah!!! Pre-orders are now signed & out for delivery soon! Swipe for a GLIMPSE of our joyous celebratory weekend, more photos at the end of the week!!! 💜🌻💜 @bordersbookstore Order your copy of The Hungering Years at Hostpublications.com or ask your local bookstore to stock via @asterism_books ! Wahoo!

Our book of the week this week is THE HUNGERING YEARS, the debut collection of poetry by Summer Farah (@bordersbookstore ), a rush of breathless song about place, Palestine and Etel Adnan. “I am always looking for Palestine, and yes, I am always looking for love,” these poems croon, holding so much of the world even as they trace an inheritance of displacement. THE HUNGERING YEARS conjures startling landscapes where we may also experience what it is to be consumed by obsession, echoing with songs by Mitski, iconic scenes from Supernatural, and the sound of the Mediterranean Sea. But as Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenatuffaha ) writes in her introduction, Farah’s repetitions “are more than echo. They are a vernacular of this unspeakable era,” anchored in “questions that keep us reaching toward life,” and questions toward each other. Building glass structures from her questions, Farah pushes their architecture almost to breaking. Then breaking, the spirit—luminous, actualized—reveals itself through the cracks. Through the landscapes of California, Palestine, and all of the distances in between, there emerges a new sense of devotion to what is possible which might thrust us, together, “off the edge, / in love, towards God.” THE HUNGERING YEARS is out today. Order your copy from our friends @hostpublications .

💜✨ We’re low (like 3!) on limited-edition ephemera like hand press pencils by @longhandpencils & luxe postcards! Pre-order right now to ensure you get a signed copy & your package is bound by this magical bespoke purple twine from west texas! 💜 Swipe for blurb by the wonderful @jessriz.art ✨Swipe for Supernatural meme 💜 Swipe for a first look of the Varo colophon designed by @strawberry_milkweed

🌟🦋NEW EPISODE ALERT! That’s right, The Host Dispatch is back, and we’re rocking out with another one of our brilliant poets, the one and only Summer Farah! @bordersbookstore 🦋 Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024), poems inspired by The Legend of Zelda. Her debut full-length poetry collection The Hungering Years is forthcoming from Host (Thats us!) on February 24th. This conversation will delight, inspire and leave you wanting more! Summer’s adoration of poetry and of her passions—from the writings of Etel Adnan to the television show Supernatural—is infectious in the best way 😝 🦋We know you’ll love this episode, available now wherever you get your pods! 🌟

💖 We’re dangerously low on limited-edition goodies and signed copies for THE HUNGERING YEARS by Summer Farah! Head over to HostPublications.com & place your order now or experience serious fomo 🥲 💖: follow the link in our bio to pre-order! 🩸: the first 100 orders will receive limited-edition goodies 💖: mark your calendars for our launch event at @alienatedmajestybooks on Feb. 20th, 2026! 🩸: reviewers, movers & shakers, booksellers, librarians, DM if you ​w​ould like an ARC​ + Press Kit 💖: Distributed by @asterism_books 🩸About ​THE HUNGERING YEARS: Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid of asking the right questions,” Farah admits. But through intimate conversations with fellow Arab-American writer and literary ancestor Etel Adnan, this work finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment? Though the answers are elusive, what steps into the light is a collective of friends whose genuine care and companionship anchor these poems through their spiraling search. 💖 Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (@gameoverbooks , 2024) and The Hungering Years (@hostpublications , 2026). A member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle, she is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.

THE HUNGERING YEARS releases this month :) after a jaunt in austin texas I will be celebrating with my angels maya and elina at my favorite place to read poems outside ‼️‼️‼️ come for some poetry. Start studying up on the particulars of my pop culture and poetic interests because I WILL be asking the audience questions. Excited to see you there :) masks encouraged :)