It is Theories of Return month! National Poetry Month, Arab Heritage Month… so grateful for the community that’s coming around this month and this book. Thank you for celebrating us and let me see you at one or a few of these!!! 🙏🏼🎉💕
It is HERE and it is really happening!!!! See you April 30th at my favorite Columbus stage, the wonderful McConnell Arts Center and its team, with two of my favorite poets to ever exist. Mandy and Scott have taught me so much about being in community and we’re thrilled to celebrate with you all! 6pm Reception, 6:30 Event begins! Of course there’ll be many readings and many friends to read with but this is the biggest! *Books available for sale at the event but you may also preorder in advance!*
Sara Abou Rashed continues to take us from miles to MILESTONES!
Relive the journey with us as we went for a walk with Little Amal in Washington, D.C.💜
#refugeeswelcome #spokenword #communityevent #community #spreadlove #fridayvibes #jummahmubarak #bethechange #UPROAR #littleamal #spreadlove
The latest edition of Bright & Blue ~ thank you all so so much for sharing your shots with me!! Honored to share Theories of Return is officially on Goodreads & across Columbus libraries!
Oh my goodness Columbus— WE DID IT!!!! A sold out show and a sold out stack of books!!! This was the stuff of magic and dreams!! Thank you for making this the sweetest and best launch EVER!! I’m honored by your love and support ❤️🙏🏼😘 special thanks to my friends & fellow readers @scottwoodsrules , @offthebeatenshelf & emcee @ruthmilligan ! شكراً لكل من دعمني في هذه الرحلة منذ أولى كتاباتي حتى الآن! Pics mostly by @donteseyes & others! More professional pics coming soon!
A couple of special “Hey, look what arrived!” texts this week! 🙏🏼🥰 BLESSED to share the first 200 of the book disappeared in less than a WEEK! Don’t worry, we’re printing more!! 🥹🗝️
Soft book launch was so wholesome today! Thank you to all my professors, fellow students, friends and OSU community who made it so sweet! Special thanks to Allison Pitinii Davis, Misha Ponnuraju, Johanna Sellman and to the English Dept, NESA, The Journal and Matari Coffee for sponsoring! 🥰💕🌸 The rest of you… see you APRIL 30th!!!
OSU community — see you this Monday!! We had a location change so please note our celebration will now take place at 141 Sullivant Hall in the Barnett Center Collaboratory.
Sara Abou Rashed shared a poem from her debut poetry collection, Theories of Return, with us for Arab American Heritage month.
Her powerful collection asks: how do we hold onto home when the map keeps changing? Theories of Return explores the unyielding spirit of resilience & the complexity of identity within the Palestinian experience. Through lyrical verse & raw honesty, it examines what it means to belong to a place that lives as much in memory as in contested reality.
The collection is available now at diodeeditions.com .
Sara Abou Rashed shared a poem from her debut poetry collection, Theories of Return, with us for Arab American Heritage month.
Her powerful collection asks: how do we hold onto home when the map keeps changing? Theories of Return explores the unyielding spirit of resilience & the complexity of identity within the Palestinian experience. Through lyrical verse & raw honesty, it examines what it means to belong to a place that lives as much in memory as in contested reality.
The collection is available now at diodeeditions.com .
Our book of the week this week is Sara Abou Rashed’s THEORIES OF RETURN, a searing and intimate poetry collection that reckons with exile, inheritance, and the impossible mathematics of going back.
Moving between Gaza, Syria, Palestine, and the diasporic present, Sara Abou Rashed braids lyric intensity with political clarity, refusing abstraction in favor of lived consequence, bodies, borders, language, and grief that multiplies across generations. These poems examine what return means when home is inaccessible and memory is fragmented. Identity is forged under occupation and displacement, yet also insists on tenderness, dark humor, and fierce intelligence as modes of survival.
At once formally inventive and emotionally direct, THEORIES OF RETURN speaks to readers drawn to poetry that confronts history without sacrificing intimacy and that understands language itself as a site of resistance, mourning, and fragile hope.
THEORIES OF RETURN is out now from @DiodeEditions .
