Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price made the five-book shortlist for the 2026 National Book Awards for Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza.
“After the genocide, / the genocide.”
It’s finally 666 revolutions / around itself since the earth / has spun my annihilation.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
