Sahar Khraibani’s ONE THOUSAND GHOSTS IN THIS FEAST contends with desire, grief, and language as sites of injury and release. Written over a period of three days—amid ongoing genocide, land seizure, and displacement—the long poem counters logics of possession with those of relation. Khraibani’s all caps, first-person address impels the poem forward, centering intertextuality as a force through which spectral presences shine through.

Sahar Khraibani is a writer and artist whose work has been presented with Montez Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Magnum Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Project, and Hyperallergicamong others. Sahar is a recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship at The Poetry Project, a MacDowell Fellowship, and is a 2024 artist in residence at Mass MoCA. Sahar teaches at Pratt Institute and is a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Their first book is forthcoming from 1080Press.