March 5, 2026
Uncrafted #5: An Interview with Zaina Alsous
by Hazem Fahmy
Craft is honed or realized through repetition: we are what we do, among and again, in writing and in life. Craft is relevant insofar as it advances the political and philosophical traditions we are rooted in, ideally of the people against those who seek to extract, exploit, and dominate.
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February 4, 2026
Uncrafted #4: An Interview with Rasha Abdulhadi
by Hazem Fahmy
The literary terrain is a site of struggle, but never merely representationally. Much as both rightwing and liberal institutions would love to have us believe, the production of literature does not exist outside of the vicious political economy of the United States. It is not enough to point to this or that institution being materially or rhetorically complicit in this country’s various atrocities–though that is certainly an urgent aspect of the struggle–but rather to question: what kind...
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January 9, 2026
Uncrafted #3: An Interview with Farid Matuk
by Hazem Fahmy
In a literary landscape where institutional hegemony is rarely challenged, it is easy to forget that poetry as a practice and tradition cannot be encapsulated by the university writing program or the prestigious journal. It is easy to forget that publishing itself is but one avenue with which to engage with and produce literature, and that a literary practice in service of collective liberation will need to go beyond the limited bounds of a literary economy. In our conversation on the...
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February 26, 2025
Uncrafted #2: An Interview with Sarah Aziza
by Hazem Fahmy
In the past few decades, as liberal cultural institutions have grown more dastardly effective at co-opting and defanging the political potential of writers and artists from historically marginalized backgrounds, the amorphous imperative to “witness” continuously re-emerges in the face of unceasing tragedy wrought about by the United States, its ruling class, and its ghastly allies across the globe. We are implored to “witness” atrocity after atrocity, but never as more than...
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June 19, 2024
Uncrafted #1: An Interview with Chase Berggrun
by Hazem Fahmy
But for me, the ways in which poems allow a reader to access feeling, I think those are also the ways in which poems are really useful political tools. Because a poem does not allow politics to be disentangled from the material reality of feeling.
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