Maya Tevet Dayan (b. 1975) is an Israeli-Canadian poet and writer. She’s the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature in 2018. Poems from her two critically acclaimed poetry collections have been translated into several languages, and she is also a translator of Sanskrit poetry.
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We received our Canadian citizenship
at the immigration office
between Costco and the highway.
For the ceremony we were asked
to turn off our phones. We raised our right hand.
Swore alle…
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