#adam hamze

[lifeinpoetry]

i        emerge as a

new animal    carrying every drowned ghost        between my        teeth

— Adam Hamze, from “when i die i will be someone else’s ancestor,” published in Winter Tangerine

[bostonpoetryslam]

Adam Hamze, “My Mother Cannot Look at Me Without Wanting to Cry,” published in The Shade Journal

[mortalpractice]

i am begging for music to staple to my tongue. begging, until i can take the fire gnawing on my skin. the television static wrenching my body apart. the combat boots chanting at my front door. the gunfire carving my future into cracked tombstones. take them all, & turn the noise into an orchestra of light. a symphony loud enough to swallow all the torches & make my name, make my name into a song. a song that sounds like a burning piano, playing itself in the middle of an empty ballroom. the kind that has been on fire for as long as it can remember.

—Adam Hamze, from "paranoia," published in Vinyl

[bostonpoetryslam]

now: tell me my language is beauty. paint walls with these words — still sounds like a massacre from a white throat. still cute, though. try again. ma ahdamak. ya wayli. mashallah. how proud you are. holding a throat within a throat.

Adam Hamze, “decolonize the tongue,” published in The Offing

[wanpoetry]

"Maybe just maybe my mother and father immigrated to this country because they knew the capital of the empire is the last to be destroyed." Adam Hamze

[manicpixiescreamgrl]

[spitshinepoetry]

Official UT Spitshine Bout Information

Come see the 2016 UT Spitshine team (Joshua Nguyen, Arati Warrier, Adam Hamze, Jasmine Bell, and slam champ Ariana Brown) compete at CUPSI! This year’s CUPSI is being hosted by UT Austin. All of the events are on campus and FREE TO THE PUBLIC. CUPSI runs from Wed, April 6th-Sat, April 9th.

Come see UT Spitshine compete in prelims! Info on semifinals will be available after prelims are over.

WED, APRIL 6TH

5pm - 6:30pm

Student Activity Center (SAC) Auditorium, 1st floor

THURS, APRIL 7TH

9pm - 10:30pm

Student Activity Center (SAC) Ballroom, South

FINALS*

SAT, APRIL 9TH

7pm - 10:30pm

Hosted by Ebony Stewart

Featuring Safia Elhillo

Hogg Auditorium

*Tickets are free, but you must pick up tickets at the Student Activity Center (SAC).

[theoffingmag]

i speak revolution. i speak not dead yet, not planning on dying any time soon. i speak a plane ticket back home. i speak a ​pond sure as hell won’t keep me & my people apart.​ i speak hot metal dipped in holy water: healing, on fire. i speak a fist placed to the oppressor’s jaw. i speak.

Read: decolonize the tongue - after angel nafiz by Adam Hamze