Happily, Huda Fakhreddine here shares four poems she translated as part of her forthcoming The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (March 2021).
Egyptian Poet Emad Abu Saleh Wins Sargon Boulus Award
The 2020 Sargon Boulus Award -- this year in its third edition -- went yesterday to Egyptian poet Emad Abu Saleh.
Poetry by Abdel Wahab Yousif in Four Languages
Tamil translator Gouthama Siddarthan has curated a small selection of poems by Abdel Wahab Yousif, a young Sudanese poet who drowned, in August, in the Mediterranean, in four languages: According to English translator and scholar Adil Babikir, Abdel Wahab Yousif, also known as Latinos, was a well-known figure among the young generation of poetry fans … Continue reading Poetry by Abdel Wahab Yousif in Four Languages
Reading T.S. Eliot in Arabic: A Talk with Ghareeb Iskander
"Saadi Youssef, in his introduction to the translation of Song of Myself, criticizes those who described Whitman as a "Sufi" poet, but he uses mystic language in his translation of Whitman’s masterpiece. It’s fascinating how a text was read and transformed into different forms and styles."
Safaa Fathy’s ‘I Would Like to Say’
"I say: I want neither father nor mother, nor to have them put on my road, or slipped into my story."
Sarah 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."
Friday Finds: Three Poems and a Digital Book Launch with Najwan Darwish
The launch of the new book -- set for October 15 at 7 p.m. BST -- will feature readings by Darwish and Alshaer, along with a discussion of the poems and the translation process with PTC commissioning editor Edward Doegar.
Launch of ‘Once Upon a Time in Aleppo’
The event, "Poems to Live for: Session 6," is supported by the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine.
Yamen Hussein: ‘You Will Always Have This Role of the Victim’
"Thomas Mann was a refugee, but we don't remember him as a “German writer” or a “refugee writer.” The classification is problematic. Unfortunately, when you are under these organizations, there is not much space for criticism of this label. We need to be more unified when making these critiques."
‘The Dangers of Poetry’: Translating Poetry to History
"Poetry brought a certain degree of cultural legitimacy to politicians, who simultaneously cultivated the support of prominent poets and feared the repercussions of their failure to do so."
Friday Finds: Ines Abassi’s ‘The Key’
"The last key I carried /dangles alone on the key rack / like a corpse at the gallows"
Monday Poem: ‘Even Those Who — Temporarily — Survived’
"and they wished away the rest of her generation, tomorrow / and, after tomorrow, all those who thought / —just thought— / of praying for her"
