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.”
Poetry
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’.
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders ‘Poems in Translation Contest’
The winning poems will be selected by American poet Airea D. Matthews, along with the editors of Words Without Borders. Winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each.
Two Poems by Kamal Kheir Beik, tr. Salma Harland
A story circulated by his friends holds that a paper was found in his bloody shirt, which contained a last, unfinished, poem. It read: “By my horse / I laid dead on the pavement, homeland slipping away.”
Friday Finds: Poems from Najwan Darwish’s ‘Exhausted on the Cross’
In it, Zurita opens by quoting from the poem “My Defeated Banner,” of which he says that “in its devastating beauty, it represents one of the peak moments of his poetry as well as of the writing of our time.”
Friday Finds: On Translating Sudanese Fiction
The stories are part of a special portfolio of fiction from established and emerging Sudanese writers.