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SUMMARY:Poets Deema K. Shehabi\, Zeina Hashem Beck & Priscilla Wathington 
 - Poets! Every First Thursday
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DESCRIPTION:Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet\, writer\, and
  editor. She’s the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and co-ed
 itor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\, for which s
 he received a Northern California Book Award. She’s also co-author of Di
 aspo/Renga (republished as Water to Water in Fall 2025) with Marilyn Hacke
 r and winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018. Deema’s wor
 k has also appeared in Academy of American Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, Los 
 Angeles Review of Books\, Poetry London\, Kenyon Review\,The Massachusetts
  Review\, and in anthologies including Ask the Night for a Dream: New Pale
 stinian Writing from the Diaspora.\n\n\nZeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese po
 et. Her collection of 40 palindromic sonnets\, titled This Was Supposed to
  Be About Beauty\, is forthcoming from Penguin Poets in Spring 2027. She
 ’s the winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry for O\, wh
 ich was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Pub
 lic Library. She’s also the author of Louder than Hearts and To Live in 
 Autumn\, as well as the chapbooks 3arabi Song and There Was and How Much T
 here Was. Her work has appeared in LARB\, Lithub\, The Nation\, Academy of
  American Poets\, and elsewhere. She’s the co-editor\, with Hala Alyan\,
  of the anthology We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers 
 of Arab Descent. She’s the co-creator and co-host\, with poet Farah Cham
 ma\, of Maqsouda\, a podcast in Arabic about Arabic poetry. Zeina currentl
 y resides in California.\n\n\nPriscilla Wathington is a Palestinian Americ
 an poet/editor and the author of the chapbook\, Paper and Stick (Tram Edit
 ions/2021). Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Four Way Review\
 , Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She was the Sam 
 Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State University’s Poetry Cen
 ter in 2024 and a Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar in 2025. Wathington si
 ts on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and holds an
  MFA from Warren Wilson College.
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