Poetry

“when the night’s at its peak and the dark’s full of rain,
and the wet silence roils like a fierce hurricane”

“There were 239 submissions from twenty countries, with the lion’s share coming from Egypt (90),  followed by Iraq (20), Jordan (19), Morocco (19), Syria (13), Algeria (11), Saudi (11), Palestine (11), Yemen (9), Sudan (8), Tunisia (8), Bahrain (5), Oman (3), Qatar (3), Lebanon (3), Kuwait (2), Libya (1), Chad (1), Belgium (1), and the UK (1).”

“The workshop will be held online over three months, from January to March 2018, and will consist of weekly 3-hour group sessions with the facilitator by video conference. “

Jraissati promises: “A novel by one the most interesting emerging voices in Lebanon”; a new novel by Man Booker International finalist Hoda Barakat; novelist by International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novelists Youssef Fadel, of Morocco, and Najwa Bin Shatwan, of Libya; and a new nonfiction work by PEN Pinter-winning Syrian novelist and activist Samar Yazbek.

“All submissions must be full-length, previously unpublished novel manuscripts in English, and translations are acceptable. Applicants may have had prior books, as long as none of these were a novel. Submissions must be made electronically, via Submittable, between October 1 and October 31, 2017.”

My sister screamed in the night

Take me to my brother’s house

And there she screamed that same night

No no! Take me back to the house of my father

“Our long-standing tradition of supporting translation includes over 400 such works to date.”

and marble like ivory
gleaming damply
with daylight dwindling
till shadows swallow
stealing footfalls
and three lifts to the left.