Submissions of 2-3 poems are preferred, but individual poem submissions will also be accepted.
Cover Reveal and 7 Poems: ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’
Above our heads a vertical shadow vibrates a shadow that flaps above our heads
Recommended Read: ‘Palestine as Metaphor’
"I don't like to resemble these taxi drivers to whom passing journalists glean their quick impressions about the country they are visiting."
Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages
You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.
In Love and Word Ensnared
Mourns a friend and blames time that struck her down with what struck me
Sunday Submissions: Copper Canyon Accepting Translated Poetry Manuscripts
Submissions close December 1, 2019.
Friday Finds: Norbert Hirschhorn’s ‘Stephen Spender’-commended Translation
I am the Lord of the room. My crown is morning dust, the floor my castle.
Friday Finds: From Amjad Nasser’s ‘Petra’
The water that tells of life also tells of the place.
New Collection of Adonis’s Poems To Be Released in Chinese Before Arabic
According to the Chinese news agency, the Chinese translation of Osmanthus is made up of 50 poems "that express the poet's affections for China's natural scenery, history, and culture, according to the publisher Yilin Press."
Robyn Creswell on Poetic Modernism in Beirut and Deprovincializing Comparative Literature
"But I was able to find out that some early issues of that magazine did receive funding from the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and that was unexpected."
‘Songs of Mihyar the Damascene’: A Translation that Took 16 Years to Publish
"We often tend to read an author’s poetry against the backdrop of his/her critical writings, but I would argue that you can’t always do this with Adonis—for the simple reason that his poetry is much more radical, much more ambiguous, and much more open-ended that his prose."
Friday Finds: ‘Another Description of the Locust’
Thigh of a camel, shank of an ostrich, a vulture's paw and the breast of a biting lion.
