Three Poems by Fady Joudah
“After the genocide, / the genocide.”
Fady Joudah
‘Your Tweet Says It All’
It’s finally 666 revolutions / around itself since the earth / has spun my annihilation.
National Book Award Finalists Include Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Two Translations from Arabic
OCTOBER 1, 2024 — This year’s list of finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards saw works by Arab authors in four of the five categories: Libyan-British author Hisham Matar’s […]
Fady Joudah: ‘How Is Your Devastation Today?’
This poem also appears on Mizna. How Is Your Devastation Today? By Fady Joudah Did a particular morning birdsong visit it? Did innocent grumbling about a meaningless desire that has […]
A New Poem by Fady Joudah
Palestinian poet, scholar, and educator Refaat Al-Areer’s poem “If I Must Die” was his pinned tweet when he was killed on December 7, 2023, when an an Israeli airstrike targeted […]
New Poetry: Fady Joudah’s ‘Sunbird’
Words, we believe, are the flesh & bone of human solidarity. They are mutual assistance; they build and reinforce our networks of shared understanding. When people swing an axe at […]
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 That Nation […]
Two Palestinian Poetry Collections Make List of Finalists for 2022 Derek Walcott Prize
AUGUST 25, 2023 — Arrowsmith Press has announced the finalists for its 2022 Derek Walcott Prize, which goes to a poetry collection published in English by a writer who is […]
An Excerpt from Hussein Barghouthi’s ‘The Blue Light’: Introduction to the Psychology of Fog
“It is said that blue is an antidote to sexual excitation—and I was a raging bull then. It is also said that blue calms the nerves—and I was on the edge of madness, bad temper was my inheritance, my father was known for it.”