"There are seven different authors featured in the special section, translated from Arabic and from French, writing in widely different genres and styles; their work provides visions of Mauritania both future and past, future fiction, ironic time-travel fiction, historical fiction set in the seventeenth century, and tersely expressive poetry."
Friday Finds: Celebrating Iman Mersal
But there's also much more of Mersal's work to explore online.
Samira Negrouche’s ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’ Shortlisted for Derek Walcott Prize
The $1000 prize is offered annually "for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world."
Friday Finds: ‘Who Are You Without People?’
"Don’t say such foolish things about people."
From the Archives: Another Road for Syrian Poetry
"I have no need of a wall clock / or a pocket diary: / I know the times of my screams"
Monday Poetry: ‘In the Name of God’
"You, well of thirst,/ Black treasure in the wolf's mouth,/ Let your lamp, that speaks miracles, light the name of Iraq."
Sunday Submissions: Etel Adnan Poetry Prize & Institut Français
The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is calling for submissions. The Institut Français is calling for applications for their program 'NAFAS'.
Friday Finds: ‘Restoring a Dissolved Person’
"This lake is not water. It was a person I had talked to for a long time then he dissolved."
‘Poetic Justice’: A Quarter Century of Collecting Moroccan Poetry
"This is not a book of “high” culture only. It contains the tastes of many aspects of Moroccan society."
Sunday Submissions: Afkar, ‘I Want Sky’
An issue of The Margins called I Want Sky -- celebrating Sarah Hegazy and queer SWANA life -- is seeking submissions through March 18.
Friday Finds: Five Poems by Qassim Haddad
The poems come from Haddad's first poetry collection, al-Bishara (The Omen), which appeared in 1970; he has since published more than a dozen more.
Golan Haji’s ‘The Same Silence’
A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.
