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Texts After the Screaming
Nour Balousha wrote these two poems "after I stopped screaming, not because it ended, but because I grew too exhausted to keep screaming." ...
The Red Suns, Purple Moons, and Gun-Carrying Mice of Syrian Poet Da’ad Haddad
"In her poetry world, the sun is red. The moon is purple. Snow is ubiquitous. Winter is eternal." ...
Poems of Whiskey and Regret by Rasha Omran
These poems, translated by Phoebe Carter, are from Rasha Omran's sixth collection, "A Secret Wife of Absence." ...
New Poetry in Translation: Sayed Abolela’s ‘Cinema’
This poem is from a forthcoming collection, مصمم معارك, to be published by the General Egyptian Book Organization ...
Three Poems from Gaza
"I pace this room alone, / fingertips brushing the wall, / memorizing each mark, each echo." ...
Three New Poems by Maysara Salah El-Din
"Once, I became / A cloud / To gain / Flight experience / And twice / I became / A brick / To gain / Experience in falling." ...
Five Poems by May Ziadeh
"sometimes my soul is wild, / an egret flying far / beyond the ocean’s edge, // and sometimes I curl up, / tender as an anemone when touched, / as salty and as damp." ...
