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1682262138 pdf Winner, 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize We need a new poetry lexicona new way of moleculing the poem on the page, evenand Maya Salameh brings it. We need all the strange Arabic-diasporic ways we can find for being in this terrible and joyful and often frighteningly banalizing world, and Salamehs poems are a generous find. Her writing is an unexpected cousin in the colonized and capitalism-razed city, bewildering and divining things youve never heard but want to learn. . . . Prepare to be stretched and delighted. Mohja Kahf, from the Foreword The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salamehs HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly unassailable technological constructs like algorithm, recursion, and loop into conversation with the technologies of womanhood, whether liner, lipstick, or blood. Exploring the relationships we have with our devices, she speaks back to the algorithm (a computers admission to blood), which acts simultaneously as warden, confidant, and data thief. Read more