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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“Eyes fixed on the Mediterranean /
mirage shimmering from afar /
we sail from island to island /
between walls and barbed wire”
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. […]
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 […]