Chaos, Crossing by Olivia Elias Keith Chandler the “tautness of fear” enacted

the “tautness of fear” enacted in the tautness of each line

Three Births culminates in the subtle but powerful message that we should be able to inhabit the body we want to inhabit and love freely within this

brim from ‘the skim/of blood that can’t settle’

then a group about the ages between 10 and 15

Helena Fornells Nadal

Chaos, Crossing by Olivia Elias Keith Chandler the “tautness of fear” enactedIn her English language debut, acclaimed French language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Chaos, Crossingtranslated by award winning translator Kareem James Abu Zeidis a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection. These poems seek the calm at the center of the storm, the still point amidst the chaos.