A 5”x5” chapbook from the 2021 Neon Hemlock Poetry Series edited by Saida Agostini. 62 pages. Published May 2021. Cover illustration by Katherine Toukhy.

PRAISE

“Abdulhadi’s collection is lush and fragrant, like biting into something overwhelmingly ripe. Their language is crisp and precise, full of luminously surprising images.”
—Hester J. Rook, co-editor of Twisted Moon

“who is owed springtime offers us readers an assortment of poems with dynamic visuality and an emotional range that is simultaneously wide and deep. There is love in their poems, and war, hiding and showing yourself; land and life and the most sacred of profane blessings.”
—Bogi Takács, Hugo & Lambda award-winning author, critic and editor

“Rasha Abdulhadi fearlessly plumbs the contours of multigenerational trauma, joy and pleasure, and comes back singing with the lessons of a hard won journey: I learned what the light of giving too much reveals.”
—Saida Agostini, author of STUNT

“It’s not your place to pick your own locks, Abdulhadi warns. But, truly, I would urge you to pry open this book any way you can: with hands, tools, teeth. Inside, you will find familial trauma; plucked, deseeded, and ripe for all seasons.”
—Lannie Stabile, author of Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus

“The eloquent, potent verse of Rasha Abdulhadi’s who is owed springtime invites deep reflection on the rhythms and cycles of life. This collection explores the sincerity and complexity of passions mistimed and out-of-season: a disquiet amidst joy that intensifies our understanding of our humanity.”
—Layla Azmi Goushey