“To write a memory I gathered a memory / and to green the marshes I sprinkled friends/ over the salt marshes, and was at a loss/ with myself”
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Friday Finds: Must-watch Special Episode of ‘Maqsouda’ on Palestinian Poetry
“Poets Zeina Hashem Beck and Farah Chamma, co-hosts of the podcast Maqsouda, share a one-time video special filmed by Hind Shoufani.”
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Friday Finds: ‘Damascus 1986’
The key’s clang
the sun I called from the windowsill
the brief time of fondness
none of it were mine
For National Poetry Day: 10 from New or Forthcoming Collections
Each time I begin to write about love
the other woman reaches out
and pushes my fingers from the keyboard
the lonely woman who lost everything
the wild woman
who looks like me
Read moreSarah Coolidge on the the Dual-language Poetry Anthology ‘Home’
“The idea behind the Calico Series was always to create books that we ourselves would want to read.”
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7 Arabic Poetry Books Forthcoming in Translation: From Adonis to Zaqtan
There seems to have an general uptick in Arabic poetry forthcoming in English translation. These are the six (correction, SEVEN) on ArabLit’s radar.
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16 Entries for the 2019 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
The prize is an annual award of £3,000; a shortlist is expected in early December.
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On Telling ‘A Story the World Has a Hard Time Hearing’
“These are giants in our part of the world,” Abulhawa said. “But here they’re unknown.”
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Attack on Beloved Gazan Novelist Atef Abu Saif
Abu Saif is in reportedly in critical condition.
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