The Moon That Turns You Back

Ms. Alyan is the author of two novels, The Arsonists’ City and Salt Houses, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award. Her four previous collections of poetry include Atrium and The Twenty-Ninth Year.

Because a Hala Alyan poem is a startlingly frank, stunningly beautiful missive (never missile) that goes straight to the white-hot heart of things.

“My relationship to poetry mirrors my relationship to truth.” Listen to the Living Writers interview with Hala Alyan .

Go Beyond the Book

“The call to witness, and the responsibility that such a position brings, runs through [Hala Alyan’s] latest book of poetry,” writes Anthony Alessandrini in the .
“We have been let into the lives of the people in Gaza in the most awful, intimate ways,” writes Ms. Alyan in for The Guardian, “I Am Not There and I Am Not Here.”
“Once I started writing, I felt I could not stop,” says Ms. Alyan, in about connecting with home through storytelling.

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