Halal if you hear me

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Summary

The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.

Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others.

Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. She is the author of If They Come For Us and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on Forbes's 30 Under 30 list.

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Author Notes

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomine, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa's 2018 "30 Under 30." Her fellowships and residencies include Cave Canem, The Conversation, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism.

Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. Fatimah Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Should Come for Us (One World/Random House, forthcoming 2018) and the chapbook After (Yes Yes Books, 2015). She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others.

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Booklist Review

With the reverberations of walls and illegals bouncing off every news outlet, the third volume in the Breakbeat Poets series launched by poet Kevin Coval, editors Fatimah Asghar (If They Come for Us, 2018) and Safia Elhillo (The January Children, 2017) showcase poems that readily refute stereotypes, lies, xenophobia, and hate. Their anthology is a literary home for the Muslim community and a platform for female voices. As political debates rage over immigration policies and racism abounds, the poets in Halal respond with more thoughtful and resonant messages that speak to humanity in all of her beautiful shades. Organized into five sections honoring Muslim customs, these poems and prose pieces are brash, youthful, and colloquial, and readers do not have to be Muslim or female to comprehend and appreciate them. These politically aware, culturally rich, and socially conscious works speak to the greater good in all of its revealing variety: Muslim. Pakistani. Kashmiri. American. Queer. Lower-class. Femme. Orphan. Sometimes woman. Sometimes man. Sometimes neither. Disposable. A vibrant and invaluable masterpiece of plurality.--Mark Eleveld Copyright 2019 Booklist

Safia ElhilloAisha SharifSheena Raza FaisalRumsha SajidMomtaza MehriSadia HassanRania El MugammarMomtaza MehriSafia ElhilloLeila ChattiFatimah AsgharTarfia FaizullahZeina Hashem BeckNadra MabroukInam KangYasmin BelkhyrLeila ChattiSahar RomaniWarsan ShireAria AberSara ElkamelSalihah AakilSaba TajNahrain Al-MousawiSafia ElhilloNoor Ibn NajamAfshan ShafiOrooj-e ZafarTasneem MaherYasmin BelkhyrCharif ShanahanZeina Hashem BeckLeila ChattiRasha AbdulhadiAngel NafisAisha SharifSaquina Karla C. GuiamJacinda BullieAria AberFatimah AsgharFarnaz FatemiLadan OsmanJuniper CruzBeyza OzerYasmin BelkhyrAsnia AsimDilruba AhmedJuniper CruzLena TuffahaSaaro UmarHala AlyanDilruba AhmedSahar MuradiAyman ItaniBilal Al-ShamsKazim AliMomtaza MehriNina GetachewSafia ElhilloSaaro UmarAisha SharifNoor Ibn NajamSahar RomaniFarah GhafoorBeyza OzerWarsan ShireAaron El SabroutBeyza OzerFatimah AsgharBeyza OzerEdil HassanKaveh AkbarHala AlyanKhadijah QueenSeema YasminNikia ChaneyRumsha SajidTarfia FaizullahLily JamaludinNasraZaina AlsousHazem FahmyEdil HassanFarnaz FatemiRami KarimBeenish AhmedBlair ImaniFariha RóisínLamya HMarwa HelalMaryam AhmadThanaa El-NaggarMahin IbrahimNajma SharifMomina MasoodRanda JarrarSafia Elhillo

Foreword: Good Muslim / Bad Muslim	p. xi
Foreword: Finding the Hammam	p. xiv
I Shahada
Ladan Osman: Following the Horn's Call	p. 2
I'm Trying to Stop Writing About Water	p. 3
Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line in Public and Still Be Muslim	p. 5
An Introduction	p. 8
Muslim Girl Preamble	p. 9
Glory Be to the Gang Gang Gang	p. 10
Jesus at Wynfield Station	p. 11
Paulander Drive	p. 13
Small Talk	p. 14
Asmarani Is at a Party & Knows This Song	p. 15
Muslim Girlhood	p. 16
Haram	p. 17
Self-Portrait as Mango	p. 18
Say Love Say God	p. 19
Memory in Which We Are Not Singing but You Are Home	p. 21
Brother as Younger Self	p. 22
When You're Brown with a Hand-Me-Down Bike	p. 24
My Fathers Relived My Birth	p. 25
II Sawm
Fasting in Tunis	p. 28
A Conversation with Ammi	p. 30
Nail Technician as Palm Reader	p. 31
Creation Myth	p. 32
Come Here Where Are You Going Come Here	p. 33
Mama Says	p. 34
Ammi	p. 35
Blooms Omen	p. 36
Ode to Swearing	p. 37
Hypothesis: Bitch Face	p. 38
A Woman Is Never Still	p. 39
New Names for Brown Baby Girls	p. 42
A Study of Anatomy, Although I Have No Desire to Study It	p. 43
Sidi Ali	p. 45
Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968	p. 46
Haratin Girl, Marrakesh, 1968	p. 47
Mother, Ka'aba	p. 48
Confession	p. 49
Nakba Day Dance	p. 50
Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot	p. 52
Hot Combs and Hijabs	p. 54
Tapestry	p. 55
Loving All My Mothers / a DNA joy in Hachi Hullo Li (i love you)	p. 56
Unmotioning	p. 58
Smell Is the Last Memory to Go	p. 60
The Woman in the White Chador	p. 61
Sacraments	p. 62
After the Orlando Shooting	p. 65
Anneanne Tells Me	p. 67
III Hajj
Our Mothers Fed Us Well	p. 70
Freedom Bar	p. 71
Snake Oil, Snake Bite	p. 73
Morning Prayer in Taino Warpaint	p. 74
Elegy	p. 76
Geography Test	p. 77
Common Ancestors	p. 81
Ghazal	p. 82
Washee/Was She	p. 83
Human	p. 84
Sacrifice	p. 85
Relinquish	p. 88
My Imminent Demise Makes the Headlines the Same Day I Notice How Even Your From Teeth Are	p. 90
Habeshawit	p. 91
Ars Poetica	p. 92
How to Say	p. 93
Accent	p. 94
Reporting Live from Hookah Lounge	p. 96
Burden of Proof	p. 98
Oxygen	p. 99
Gerisi, Eylül / Rest, Eylül	p. 101
Things Get Harder When It Rams	p. 102
Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle	p. 103
Dias/phoria Suite	p. 104
Hello, This Letter Was Never Finished	p. 105
If They Come for Us	p. 106
IV Salah
I've Watched Myself Die Twice This Week	p. 110
Ghazal	p. 111
What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around	p. 112
A Boy Steps into the Water	p. 113
Ordinary Scripture	p. 114
Any Other Name	p. 115
Polymath	p. 118
Morning	p. 119
Somewhere in California	p. 120
Aubade with Sage and Lemon	p. 121
100 Bells	p. 123
H.H. QM	p. 125
For Xulhaz	p. 127
Blush	p. 130
On Longing	p. 132
Clubbing w/ Hamed Sinno	p. 133
In Which Iblis Lies Awake at Night	p. 134
June 6th	p. 135
Forbidden	p. 136
There Needs to Be a Different Word	p. 137
V Zakat
Eid in Red and White	p. 142
Why Activist Blair Imani Will No Longer Wear Hijab Post-Trump	p. 145
How I Learned to Accept My Queerness as a Muslim Woman	p. 147
Queer Brown Futures (Or Lack Thereof)	p. 153
Say Ameen	p. 158
Some Kind of Holy	p. 162
Practicing Islam in Short Shorts	p. 165
How I Used My Hijab to Hide and Why I Don't Anymore	p. 169
Muhammad Ali Helped Shape My Identity as a Black Muslim	p. 174
Of Dark Rooms and Foreign Languages	p. 176
Neither Slave nor Pharaoh	p. 180
Now More Than Ever	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 190
Index by Author	p. 193
Biographies	p. 194

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