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Edward Salem is the author of Monk Fruit (2025), the winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and Intifadas (2026), the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere.
  • I Hid in the Bushes

    I Hid in the Bushes

    Poet Edward Salem’s “I Hid in the Bushes” narrates the speaker’s harrowing detainment by the Palestinian Authority after filming its collaboration with the occupation army.