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Marilyn Hacker

Poetry

A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’

“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”

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On Translation

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.

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News

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.

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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.”

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Poetry

Friday Finds: Samira Negrouche’s ‘Alba Rosa’

“You didn’t leave home / your home left you.”

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Lit & Found, WiTMonth

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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WiTMonth

#WiTMonth Friday Finds: Rachida Madani in English and Arabic

“But men / but the wind push her out on the cliff. / She watches the ocean / she would like to hurl herself into the ocean / to drink up the ocean.”

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WiTMonth

#WiTMonth Poetry: Amina Saïd’s ‘I Live Here in the Basement of the Gare de Lyon’

“you come from somewhere else too he says / and the stones moan with absence / the earth stops turning / once yes once I also had a country”

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From ArabLit Quarterly

Lock-in Literature: Zakaria Tamer’s ‘The Flower’

“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”

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Poetry

New and featured poems.

Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

Podcast

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Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.

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