  {"id":3998,"date":"2026-06-19T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/?page_id=3998"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:07:34","slug":"jessica-awada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/jessica-awada\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Awada"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Three Poems<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-645x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-645x1024.png 645w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-252x400.png 252w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-768x1220.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-967x1536.png 967w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-1289x2048.png 1289w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-beirut-1-scaled.png 1612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-725x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-725x1024.png 725w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-283x400.png 283w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-768x1084.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-1088x1536.png 1088w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-1451x2048.png 1451w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-we-teach-life-1-scaled.png 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-scaled.png 845w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-132x400.png 132w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-338x1024.png 338w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-768x2327.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-507x1536.png 507w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/feast-1-676x2048.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-poems-Layout-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-poems-Layout-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-poems-Layout-4.png 540w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-poems-Layout-4-400x95.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3862 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-cropped-344x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-cropped-344x400.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jessica-cropped.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Awada is a poet and writer from Beirut, Lebanon. While currently a second-year MFA candidate in Poetry at Texas State University, she also holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from St. Olaf College (2022). Her work explores the love, grief, and resilience embedded within the Levant, its landscapes, and its histories. She was the recipient of the League for Innovation: Student Literary Award for her short story \u201cTo Build a Glasshouse,\u201d and her poetry and flash fiction have appeared in <em>The Rio Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Poems Jessica Awada is a poet and writer from Beirut, Lebanon. While currently a second-year MFA candidate in Poetry at Texas State University, she also holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from St. Olaf College (2022). Her work explores the love, grief, and resilience embedded within the Levant, its landscapes, and its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/jessica-awada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jessica Awada&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3998","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3998\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/vice-versa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}