New Poetry by Golan Haji
The Scissors By Golan Haji Translated by Marilyn Hacker Golan Haji is a Syrian-Kurdish poet, essayist and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He lives in France. He has […]
Marilyn Hacker
Golan Haji & Marilyn Hacker on the Inseparable Natures of Writing and Translating
The two introductory texts below — on life, writing, and translation — appear in the newly published trilingual collection Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets. By Golan […]
NTA’s 2023 Poetry Longlist Includes Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold,’ tr. Robyn Creswell, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s ‘The Water People,’ tr. Marilyn Hacker
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 — The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) today announced the longlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. Although there were no Arab […]
A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
Two Maghrebi Poetry Collections, ‘Impostures’ Shortlisted for 2021 National Translation Awards
Maghrebi works dominated this year’s poetry longlis, and two of these have moved on to the six-book poetry shortlist.
Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards
utstanding Maghrebi collections have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.
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.”
Friday Finds: Samira Negrouche’s ‘Alba Rosa’
“You didn’t leave home / your home left you.”
Friday Finds: Saniya Saleh’s ‘Autumn of Freedom’
“Beirut / I dreamed you were invaded / and awoke to the noise of destruction”
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