The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

An event of poets writing in conversation with each other as Arab women and as students of the oeuvre of Etel Adnan. What does it mean to write from the Lebanese and Palestinian diaspora during the time of the latest Arab Apocalypse so famously written about by Etel Adnan? Poets consider the earthly and the cosmic and the urgent and the current and how this queer elder encompassed the nuance of her placement in history in a way that became an access point for her peers as well as the writers that came next.