🍉 Join us for a very special evening of community, poetry, and delicious Palestinian food.

Lenna Jawdat will share poems, verses and reflections from 70,000 Poems, a visceral and inventive collection of poetry rooted in the theft of 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries by Zionist forces before and during the Nakba of 1948. Of those books, most have vanished; just 6,000 remain, locked in the Israeli National Archives -- unreachable by Palestinians.

Summer Farah will share from her debut poetry collection The Hungering Years, a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid of asking the right questions,” Farah admits. But through intimate conversations with fellow Arab-American writer and literary ancestor Etel Adnan, this work finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment? Though the answers are elusive, what steps into the light is a collective of friends whose genuine care and companionship anchor these poems through their spiraling search.

310-403-9800 

🚙 🚗 Street Parking is available on Adams Blvd., as well as neighboring side streets Rimpau and Harcourt.

 

Out of respect for our Muslim brothers and sisters, Holy Ground is an alcohol-free space.