Poets & Writers Theater

Hala Alyan reads her poem “Light Ghazal,” which appears in her fifth poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back (Ecco, 2024), in this short film directed by Jake McAfee and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, for their Read By poetry film series.

“‘There’s a war,’ she told them. ‘People are fighting, bad things are happening.’” Hala Alyan, who is featured in “First Fiction 2017” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads from her debut novel, Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), at Politics and Prose Bookstore.