TRANSFORMIGRATION SERIES

I Am Made To Leave I Am Made To Return, by Marwa Helal

Fall 2017 (sold out)

Marwa Helal is the winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and her BA in journalism and international studies from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Learn more about I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN at The Ms. Q&A: How Poet Marwa Helal Uses Poetry As Preservation

>>>Many of the poems in I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN can now be found in Marwa Helal’s debut collection INVASIVE SPECIES, available from Nightboat Books.

TRANSFORMIGRATION SERIES

Debut chapbooks by four poets, launching in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018.

Joshua Escobar - Caljforkya Voltage

Marwa Helal - I Am Made To Leave I Am Made To Return

Viktoria Peitchev - Exile in Orbit

Viento Izquierdo Ugaz - Estoy Tristeza