For a Moment

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet from Gaza. His debut poetry book, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights, 2022), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award, and Arrowsmith Press’s 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, AGNI, The New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2024)