Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet from Gaza. His first book of poems, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, published by City Lights in 2022, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won an American Book Award.

Mosab Abu Toha

Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Mosab Abu Toha’s “Gaza Notebook (2021–2023)”

LARB Lit

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet from Gaza. His first book of poems, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, published by City Lights in 2022, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won an American Book Award.

Mosab Abu Toha

Articles

Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

Mosab Abu Toha’s “Gaza Notebook (2021–2023)”