An Evening of Poetry: The Hungering Years

Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid of asking the right questions,” Farah admits. But through intimate conversations with fellow Arab-American writer and literary ancestor Etel Adnan, this work finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment? Though the answers are elusive, what steps into the light is a collective of friends whose genuine care and companionship anchor these poems through their spiraling search.

The event will include readings by Summer Farah, Jazz Sufi, and Giovanna Lomanto.

Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase and to be signed after the event.

LOCATION:

Moments Cooperative & Community Space

410 13th St, Oakland, CA 94612

ACCESS INFO:

Masks required & low-scent/no-scent environment (More accessibility info below). Event will be indoors. Limited capacity.

DATE:

Friday, April 17 at 6PM

RSVP Required

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MORE ACCESS DETAILS:

MASKS REQUIRED!

LOW SCENT / NO SCENT SPACE - To attend in person, we ask that everyone comes completely free of fragranced body and clothing products. For more information on low scent / no scent spaces, please refer to our neighbors at East Bay Meditation Center on fragrance free space at the link here.

ACCESSIBILITY / SPACE INFORMATION:

- MASKS ARE ALWAYS REQUIRED, extra masks are available
- low / no scent space
- located at 410 13th St Oakland, near 12th St. BART station
- 1st floor is wheelchair accessible, front door width of 36 in. (front door gate-base sticks out a bit, can make navigating into the store require assistance)
- Gender neutral bathroom on 2nd floor, up a flight of stairs 36 in. wide (14 steps exactly)

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Please email [email protected] for any additional accessibility requests and we will do our best to accomodate them.

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READER BIOS

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of The Hungering Years (Host Publications, 2026). Her chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books) was featured in Electric Lit’s “Favorite Poetry Collections of 2024”. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize, a Hugo Award, and is anthologized in Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket). Her essay was an honorable mention for the 2025 Krause Essay Prize. She has received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts through the Microgrant for Palestinian Writers, was a 22-23 NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow, and a Poetry Northwest Critic at Large. She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.

Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work has been published or is upcoming in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Catalog of Shadows, is forthcoming with Game Over Books. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and New York University, where she received her MFA. She is the current Poet Laureate of San Ramon on occupied Ohlone land, where she lives with her dog, Apollo.
Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart-Prize nominated poet and artist. She has published two full length poetry collections. A recent graduate of NYU's MFA program, her work has been supported by U.C. Berkeley, KQED, and the SFMOMA archive. In addition to working as a teaching artist and nonprofit organizer, she has also co-hosted the Living Room Poetry series and served as the lead curator for the San Francisco Literary Festival's inaugural Out Loud weekend for Queer & BIPOC writers. Currently, she serves as the co-owner of the indie press Game Over Books. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their lion head bunny Maggie.

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