WRITER.

TEACHER. ACTIVIST.

This collection travels through a daughter's childhood memories in Montreal, her mother's homeland of Lebanon, and the dark realities of grief across borders.  Min Hayati uncovers the well of sorrow and the depth of love discovered only through loss. Poetry pays homage to the author's maternal lineage, her mixed ethnicity, and the ways in which "mother" transcends all aspects of life.

Min Hayati  advocates for a radical change in our approach to grief and the (still) taboo subjects of death, dying, and grief. Poems speak in particular to motherless-daughters around the world. Most importantly, the poet's Arab roots sets her apart as a Canadian poet with a different story.

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Rayya Liebich’s newest chapbook, A Litany of Words I Cannot Read (PS Guelph 2026), follows the linguistic traces that echo from the genocide in Palestine through the horrors of clips and reels as the conflict is broadcast through social media. Through a month-to-month record, Liebich reflects the distance from land and language that aches within stories of transnational migration and diaspora. The poetry grapples with how Arabic phrases she recognizes resonate simultaneously in both the comforting sound of her mother’s native language and in the agony emanating from Gaza. A Litany of Words contains poems in English as well as a blend of Arabic, English and French, and is designed by Steph Yates and handmade in Guelph.

Rayya Liebich is a writer, educator, and activist, of Lebanese and Polish descent. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Tell Me Everything (Ontario Poetry Society), the poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications), and a hybrid memoir entitled Milk Teeth (forthcoming with Pownal Street Press). The last two years, she has channelled her rage and grief over the horrors in Palestine into this collection and published two other chapbooks Khalas/Enough (Gridlock Lit) and Word Games for Times of Genocide (Pinhole Poetry). Winner of The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir and Briarpatch’s Writing in the Margins Contest, her poetry and prose can be found in The Rumpus, Geist, Room, Protean Magazine, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She believes in the power of words to change minds and hearts, and in the responsibility of artists to be truth-tellers.