Tag: Hayan Charara

• Reading Through the Stacks: 9. A Biting Wit

  October 6, 2022

  Poetry, Reading Through the Stacks

  Hayan Charara, Muslim Americans, Poetry, Reading, These Trees Those Leaves This Flower That Fruit

  Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re discussing a new book: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara. Hayan Charara (1972–) grew up in Detroit, and some of his poetry deals with the decay of this particular urban landscape, his Lebanese cultural roots come through mostly in meditations…