Omar Sakr is an Arab Australian poet, the son of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants, born and raised in Western Sydney. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) and most recently The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), which has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. He received the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry in 2019. The Lost Arabs is out now in the US through Andrews McMeel (2020).

Omar Sakr

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet from Jacksonville, Florida. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) and the chapbooks: the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) and al youm (TAR, 2017). They are a Kundiman fellow and board member for the Radius of Arab-american Writers (RAWI). He is currently based in Massachusetts, where he is a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Harvard University.

George Abraham

To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham

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

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George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet from Jacksonville, Florida. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) and the chapbooks: the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) and al youm (TAR, 2017). They are a Kundiman fellow and board member for the Radius of Arab-american Writers (RAWI). He is currently based in Massachusetts, where he is a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Harvard University.

George Abraham

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To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham