MFA Programs in Writing present readings by
Noor Hindi, George Abraham and Matt Sumell
Light refreshments and book sale at the event
All are welcome to join!
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Humanities Instructional Bldg 135
@5:30pm
Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is calling on you to join the global fight for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Anywhere and everywhere you are, you can disrupt, advocate, speak out and refuse in small and big ways. Revolution until freedom.
Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022), was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. She is the co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. (Haymarket Books, 2025).
George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025) which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
Matt Sumell is the author of Making Nice and a graduate of the University of California, Irvine’s MFA Program in Writing. His fiction and essays have appeared in Esquire, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Freeman’s, Noon, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he writes about loss, grief derangement, broken machines, and the work of salvaging what’s left.