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Emily Khilfeh | إِمَلي خِلْفِه @khilfish

POET • 🇵🇸 • 💖💜💙 | work in @JetFuelReview @RustedRadishes @glass_poetry @upthestaircase @pinwheeljournal & etc.

Joined April 2013
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probably one of my darkest days during lockdown was when i turned to my roommate and said, completely genuinely, that i wished i lived in roku city
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nearly caused my sister to choke on dinner by asking “apparently the kids are over among us, did you know this?”
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it was news to me
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peter o’toole aka lawrence of arabia voicing anton ego from ratatouille is my multiverse of madness
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VIBE@violetetc
29 Jun 2023
Get a print copy of ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟɪᴛʏɪꜱᴅᴇᴀᴅ, edited by Summer Farah and featuring Emily Khilfeh (@khilfish)'s work 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢 🍋 violetindigoblueetc.bigcarte…
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finally watched the entirely of lawrence of arabia (1962). can’t stop thinking about how peter o’toole was in a hamlet in the park absolutely hamming it up, omar sharif was fucking PHENOMENAL, and everyone else was in brown face
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truly movie of all time
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Me: “I feel like I haven’t heard about BTS in a while, what happened” Nora: “Um, they got drafted”
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me: *takes a sip of Nora’s ice coffee* dad: “how come you don’t want what I have?” [he is stirring a can of plain beans and eating them with a spoon]
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explaining a movie i saw yesterday to my friend
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Omar Sakr@omarsakrpoet
1 Jun 2023
Three poems from my "Inferno" sequence are in the new issue of @poetrymagazine ! Out now.
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Jackson Holbert@JacksonHolbert
27 May 2023
Winter Stranger officially comes out from @Milkweed_Books on June 13th! You can preorder it here. milkweed.org/book/winter-str… Thanks to everyone who made it happen, and everyone who blurbed it. @ColeHenri @DeVonciFig @mountain_goats and Sarah Matthes!
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i want to be invited to a prestigious film festival so when a movie is bad i can very pointedly NOT take part in the standing ovation & instead sit with my arms crossed in my seat, shaking my head
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so many directors could benefit from this. you think i’d be standing & clapping for the whale?? as IF
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my most anticipated read!!!!! 💓
Univ. of Arkansas Press@uarkpress
18 May 2023
Off to print! CORIOLIS by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Pre-order: uapress.com/product/coriolis… @RAWInews @IntifadaBatata
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George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم@IntifadaBatata
20 May 2023
I really need there to be more hype about this incredible debut by a singularly talented rising Palestinian Am poet! Book publicity folks, I hope it's on your radar! Check out my blurb alongside these words from the incredible poets @ilya_poet & Ashley M Jones!!
Univ. of Arkansas Press@uarkpress
18 May 2023
Off to print! CORIOLIS by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Pre-order: uapress.com/product/coriolis… @RAWInews @IntifadaBatata
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i have become a person who is now EARLY to events. but i am not a person who is any less anxious about that
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VIBE@violetetc
12 May 2023
Edited by Summer Farah, featuring Ariana Brown, Jannah Yusuf Al-Jamil, lee baird, Imani Davis, Salonee Verma, Willow James Claire, Amelia Crowther, Mariel Fechik, Emily Khilfeh, & Pragnya Haralur, 𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑰𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀𝑰𝑺𝑫𝑬𝑨𝑫 is on sale with our other guest-edited folios!
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Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited? More like Wes Anderson’s Diversity Limited
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i know not my finest work but i’m traveling all day
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