Interrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures
Language enacts violence through manipulation.
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Joumana Altallal
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Joumana Altallal is an Iraqi Lebanese writer and Zell Fellow in Poetry at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She works with Citywide Poets to lead a weekly after-school poetry session for high school students in Metro Detroit. Her recent work appears in Glass Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, Mud Season Review, and Bayou Magazine. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Napa Valley Writer's Conference, and the Radius for Arab American Writers. You can find Joumana on Twitter at @joualt.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.