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October 15th, 2025
اﻟﺪﻛﺎن Al-Doukan (The Shop)
Layla Azmi Goushey
Woven of many texts and many voices—lyric poems (her own as well as selections from Maja Sadikovic), oral testimonies from working-class Arab immigrants, documents culled from her personal archive, and her own letters written in grief, contestation and solidarity—Layla Azmi Goushey’s The Shop is an astonishing example of poetry as social and historical investigation. In Goushey's work, the making of poetry has much in common with the daily labor of working class exiles and immigrants. “Heritage” in this collection is not a commodity easily gathered or celebrated, but a tapestry that must be rewoven from difficult, paradoxical, sometimes dreadful, often absurd experiences. The “shop” — the gas station, the auto shop, the street stall in the sacred city—appears both as literal space of work and encounter, as well as a metaphor for the making of a more just historical record.
$12.00
August 15th, 2025
MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON KISSES ME GOODNIGHT
Ariel Francisco
“Something has shifted,” Ariel Francisco writes in the first poem of My Sleep Paralysis Demon Kisses Me Goodnight. In the poems that follow, we travel through various American cities, through airports and cafes, through heartbreak, anger, fear, boredom and wonder. Each poem is a map of a mind in motion, shifting in tune with the scenes of an unbearable world, a mind determined to notice and to sing. Here we encounter the poet firmly in the tradition of the troubadour, addressing former lovers, friends, other poets, strangers, and the imagination itself, always in the dialect of the heart.