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Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory
"I spend the hours-long dream chanting the line, determined to remember it, because the part of me that is awake, that is aware, knows I will want it later."
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Hala Alyan
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| October 17, 2023
Two Poems by Hala Alyan
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Hala Alyan
| January 29, 2019
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Do the Work, Accept Rejection, Find Community
By
Hala Alyan
| May 1, 2017
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