Overhear Poetry Reading

Ahmad Almallah grew up in Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia. His newest poetry collection, Wrong Winds, is out with Fonograf Editions (2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions 2023) and Bitter English (Chicago 2019). His poems appeared in Poetry, SAND, APR, MQR, Icarus among others. Some of his honors include: a fellowship and residency at Millay Arts, the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize and the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. He is artist in residence at KWH and CPCW at UPenn. He was chosen by the Royal Society of Literature in England as one of the 12 international writes of 2025 who significantly contributed to English language and literature.

Trace Peterson's poetry books are The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books Alma Award winner, 2025) and Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007/2019). She also edits the small press EOAGH and co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer…