"Winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each."
Etel Adnan’s ‘Time’ Makes Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
Four books made the 2020 international shortlist, but just one translation: Etel Adnan's "Time," translated from the French by Sarah Riggs.
‘A Street in the Pandemic’ & Other Poems by Jawdat Fakhreddine
"Perhaps, after this pandemic passes,/ I will keep the rituals I have acquired in its course / because I've learned to hold on- more than ever before -/ to time,/ to examine it meticulously/ and to find life, clenched and caught,/ in its fleeting moments."
World Poetry Day: 21 Poems by Arab Women (in Translation)
To mark the day, we have a list of 21 poems by Arab women, translated to English, starting with the sixth century and ending with work published in 2020.
Which 9 Arab Poets Are Featured in the New Two Lines Anthology ‘Home’?
"Home," a new bilingual collection of contemporary Arabic poetry, is set for a September release, and it features work from nine poets, hailing from eight different countries, with an emphasis on "the minutiae of everyday life—the pain, the pleasure, the uncertainty, the ennui."
How Mahmoud Darwish Inspired a Poetry Movement in Assam, India
The off-London Book Fair podcast explores the Miyah poetry movement that was sparked in April 2016 when poet Hafiz Ahmed composed "Write Down I Am a Miyah," an echo of Mahmoud Darwish’s "ID Card," and shared it on social media.
On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind/
There’s a land in the mind with a heavenly name the words carry.
Born on This Day: 7 Poems by Fadwa Tuqan
"Do not fill postcards with memories/
Between my heart and the luxury of passion/
stretches a desert where ropes of fire/
blaze and smolder, where snakes/
coil and recoil, swallowing blossoms
with poison and flame."
3 Poems from Sillerman-shortlisted El Habib Louai
They got nothing except / Seven sheepskins on hard floors / The Sultan’s black and white photograph on blank walls / A guerba of goat skin full of well water / Broken jugs, hay-stuffed rucksack pillows & clay plates
3 Poems from Rasha Omran’s New Collection
"Because I, too, know that no one dies of love, / I live my life like a normal woman."
Poems and Ancestors: Huda Fakhreddine Translates Jawdat Fakhreddine
"I told my wife, now that we have reached sixty together -- / with myself a bit ahead of her,/ we will be living from now on/ the most wonderful decade of our lives . . ."
The Intersections of Poetry and Politics in Saudi Arabia
At a majliss in Saudi Arabia, for example, some Saudis complained that an unwillingness to embrace the art form in the past meant that a “Saudi art form” had effectively been monopolized by the United Arab Emirates.
