Philipe AbiYouness

Philipe AbiYouness is a first-generation Lebanese-American poet and educator. His work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, Fugue, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, PANK, and elsewhere. He was a Brooklyn Poets Fellow in the summer of 2019 and will be pursuing his MFA at Rutgers University-Newark starting in the fall of 2020.

Content by Philipe AbiYouness

Abstract art in green, black, and blue colours

Poetry,

Everything Worth Knowing I Learned at a Kitchen Table

BY Philipe AbiYouness

My cousins know what they know like loose seeds, like the future
blooms from an archive. We smoke hookah in Patterson and flag
the waiter down with our dim coals, thin smoke, we are a pain
in the ass, walo, we know.