Writing across Difference to Another Girl-Poet on Lailat al-Qadr

by Joy Arbor

This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

 

 

 

 

 

Joy Arbor

Joy Arbor

Joy Arbor is the author of the chapbook Where Are You From, Originally? (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She is currently working on a collection exploring the tension between her Israeli family background and her experiences listening to Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank. Poems from the collection have appeared in Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Dunes Review, Lunch Ticket, Minyan, Pleiades, Scintilla, Scoundrel Time, and Split Rock Review. She has been nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in A Human Voice. An editor, Joy lives in Davis, California with her husband and son.

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