Palestinian Poems with and for the Now
This list is a beginning. Please borrow and/or expand it. You can find more poems at this Word doc. There is also this beautiful PDF, which includes additional resources. Rasha Abdulhadi Incomplete List […]
Poetry
An Excerpt of ‘Your Name, Palestine’ by Olivia Elias
Excerpted from Your Name, Palestine, published this month by World Poetry Books. Poems by Olivia Elias, translated by Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert, with drawings by Basil King. […]
What I Need to Tell My Neighbors in Arkansas: A Poem by Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf writes from Arkansas, USA. The image is of an olive tree on the Jericho Mountains in Palestine, via Wikimedia Commons. What I Need to Tell My Neighbors in Arkansas By […]
Die Here, to Live There: Two Poems by Kamal Elgizouli
By Adil Babakir Sudanese poet Kamal Elgizouli, who passed away in the early hours of Monday, November 6 in Cairo, will be remembered in his country and abroad for his […]
Samer Abu Hawwash’s ‘It No Longer Matters If Anyone Loves Us’
This poem originally appeared in an-Nahar on October 25. * It No Longer Matters If Anyone Loves Us By Samer Abu Hawwash Translated by Huda Fakhreddine It no longer matters if anyone loves […]
New Poetry in Translation: Ghassan Zaqtan’s ‘Everything Knows You Will Rise’
“Everything Knows You Will Rise” appeared on October 23, 2023, in al-Ayyaam. The art published with this poem is from the cover Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, tr. Fady Joudah. Everything Knows You Will […]
From ‘Your Name, Palestine’ by Olivia Elias
“Eyes fixed on the Mediterranean /
mirage shimmering from afar /
we sail from island to island /
between walls and barbed wire”
Hunting Poems by a One-Day Caliph from the Library of Arabic Literature
In early September, the Library of Arabic Literature published a new collection of hunting poems by Abbasid litterateur, poet, and caliph for a day Ibn al-Mu’tazz (247/861–296/908), in James E. […]
Monday Poetry: Two Readings by Mona Kareem and Sara Elkamel
Last May, poet-translator team Mona Kareem and Sara Elkamel launched I Will Not Fold These Maps, a collection of Kareems poems translated to English by Elkamel. Among the launch events was one […]