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🌈🇵🇸 /📍Columbus, OH writer & bookseller at @prologuebookshop
Author: MIDWEST SHREDS (@beltpub 2024) & WE HAD MANSIONS (@diodeeditions 2025)
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Do you like to PARTY with COLLAGE? Do you want to scream into the void alongside other likeminded creative weirdos? Come to the free collage party for the opening reception of Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance at Hopkins Hall Gallery on Friday, October 30 from 5–8 PM!

This event will be hosted by the Columbus Collage Collective, featuring music from DJ LaChewLa—host of Peaks and Valleys (peaksandvalleyswgrn) on 91.9 WGRN Columbus—and a poetry performance by Mandy Shunnarah (@offthebeatenshelf).

RSVP for the free event at uas.osu.edu/events or the link in bio!

Pulp Stiction is a national juried exhibition curated by Emily Morgan of Lovely But Dead in partnership with Urban Arts Space. It runs October 26 through December 11, 2026 at Hopkins Hall Gallery on The Ohio State University’s main campus. Seventy-three works will be on display in the gallery, with nineteen more in a digital exhibition.

Featuring a hands-on scrap room, a community collage, a curator walkthrough, and collage parties throughout the run, ending with a closing party December 11, Pulp Stiction pulls the viewer into the world of collage as an art form and a release mechanism.

Promo Design by Miles Dobson @miles_of_arts
Promo Artwork by: Ian Tothill @iantothill

#collage #collageparty #resistance #ohiostate #columbusohio @osu_art_ PULP STICTION COLLAGE PARTY
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, October 30, 5-8 PM
Free
Hopkins Hall Gallery
Collage of two people dancing

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🚨🚨SATURDAY EVENING POETRY MASHUP ALERT! 🚨🚨
7-9p // Oct 17

Sara Abou Rashed!
Mandy Shunnarah!

Two Dollar Radio HQ

Suggested donation: $10

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We had to pull in extra seating to fit everyone who wanted to attend the “By Our Nature” Poetry Reading! Many thanks to our amazing poets who performed—Ruth Awad, Connor Beeman, Misha Ponnuraju, and Mandy Shunnarah—as well as event organizer Meredith Whitaker and curator Jo Birdsell. This was a truly lovely and special event.

You still have time to see the “By Our Nature” exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery through Friday, October 16, featuring the work of five queer photographers: Jo Birdsell, Anton Bou, Taylor Nice, Coyote Park, and Lauren Buck Withrow. Together, the artists work to naturalize queerness and assert queer people’s right to take up space, asking the audience to consider what’s next, both from queer Amerikans and for Amerikan nature.

Photo Credit: Sefanit Reddae, Community Engagement Intern

#poetry #poetryreading #ohiostate #ohiopoets #artgallery A speaker in a long floral dress reading from a document to a seated audience gathered in an art gallery space.

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Shared a few poems at the Columbus Coffee Festival today. Much appreciations to the organizers for having me and to the poets of Columbus. 🙏🏿

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We can’t wait to host this special poetry reading celebrating the “By Our Nature” exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery! The event will feature work from four incredible Columbus-based queer poets: Ruth Awad, Connor Beeman, Misha Ponnuraju, and Mandy Shunnarah.

Join us on Wednesday, September 16 from 6–8 PM at Hopkins for an evening of community and spoken word. This event is free and open to all.

RSVP at the link in bio or uas.osu.edu/events/poetry-reading-our-nature.

In “By Our Nature,” Jo Birdsell navigates the changing political reality for queer people in the United States through photography and film, alongside Anton Bou, Taylor Nice, Coyote Park, and Lauren Buck Withrow. As both land and body become sites of major political suppression, Birdsell relates to their own queerness by planting themselves firmly in the landscape of the rural United States.

#poetryreading #queerpoets #ohiopoets #queerphotography #ohio Promotional poster for a "By Our Nature" poetry reading at Hopkins Hall Gallery, featuring photographs of landscape scenes and event details. (September 16 from 6-8 pm)

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HI_episide36 is up now✔️ Listen free on humaninterviews.bandcamp.com or link via bio.

HUMAN INTERVIEWS ep_36 w/ 3 extraordinary people:

DJ/Producer/@soonspins platform co-creator @kpmadman_

Poet, Artist, and Organizer Alia Hardee @alianactivity

Author and Poet Mandy Shunnarrah @offthebeatenshelf

Topics: #love #mentalhealth #art #poetry #decolonization

@wcrs Wednesdays 11pm + Thursdays 3am

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Thank you so much @prologuebookshop and Columbus for such a warm welcome! It was such a gift to talk about organizing and writing with @offthebeatenshelf and to have my brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew in the audience! (Why can’t we all look at the same camera? Idk! But we’re cute!) I loved the conversation and the sharp questions and the kindness. I loved meeting so many fellow writers. PLUS the curation at @prologuebookshop is exquisite!

Virginia! I’m at @blacksburg_books tomorrow evening and Saturday afternoon in Roanoke at @waronbooks! Then: next weekend back in my beloved Morehead at @coffeetreebooks for the @appalachianliteraryartsfest August 28th-30th ❤️‍🔥📕

Come see me?

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Mandy Shunnarah reads
“Everyone’s Favorite Palestinian,”
and discusses its making.

from We Had Mansions

#diode #diodepoetry #diodeeditions #poetry #poem

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Let me tell you about the most stunning project I’ve worked on! Dare I say I’m almost more proud of this than my own book because it is one thing to write your own poems, it is another to be confronted by the beauty and violence of the words of others from across continents—- this is no regular magazine issue! It is resource for any teacher, educator, reader or writer who wants to engage more deeply with writing on Palestine and the global indigenous struggle. It has many reflections and prompts for your classrooms! Gorgeous gorgeous art & production. Exceptional work @thedodgemag shout out to all the contributors here and to Dr. Marlo Starr!

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The Ohio Book Awards Readers' Choice Award is now live!

Please vote for WE HAD MANSIONS here:

https://survey.typeform.com/to/Pows6jiE

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This is my brother Mustafa, and he suffers from zygomatic bone disease. He needs surgery, and we need your help.

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And this is my brother Ibrahim, he has tumors in his spine and he needs that money.

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