Author: Edward Salem
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OCTOBER INTERVIEW with EDWARD SALEM
Edward Salem is a poet who hasn’t lost his sense of humor. “Palestinians,” he shares in our interview, “are insanely funny.” It’s this sense of humor that jumps off the page of Salem’s debut poetry collection, Monk Fruit, surprising readers, even as he’s tackling topics like the occupation of Palestine, American imperialism, torture, and genocide.…
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ANNIVERSARY by Edward Salem
Kneeling to carve back the grass encroachinglike cuticles on a fingernail, I noticed how close her flat headstone was to the others around hers. Watering the flowers at his wife’s grave, an old man told me they’re placed above the abdomens, not the heads, as you’d expect. I think he meant to explain they were less crowded underground than…