Something About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with So Mayer at London Review Bookshop
Mon 16 Mar 2026, 7pm
Venue: London Review Bookshop, London
Address: 14 Bury Pl, London, WC1A 2JL
Something About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and So Mayer
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha was born in Seattle but grew up in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and her poetry reflects on her Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage and on her experience as a first generation American immigrant.
In Something about Living (the87press), winner of the National Book Award in 2024, her poems interweave the history of Palestinian suffering and resistance with the challenges of living in a world full of violence and the gentle pleasures we embrace in order to survive that violence.
Tuffaha will be reading from her work, and discussing it with writer, bookseller and film curator So Mayer, whose most recent book is Bad Language.
