A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”Continue Reading
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”Continue Reading
Maghrebi works dominated this year’s poetry longlis, and two of these have moved on to the six-book poetry shortlist.Continue Reading
utstanding Maghrebi collections have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.Continue Reading
The $1000 prize is offered annually “for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.” Continue Reading
“You didn’t leave home / your home left you.” Continue Reading
“Beirut / I dreamed you were invaded / and awoke to the noise of destruction”Continue Reading
“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.”Continue Reading
“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”Continue Reading
“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.”Continue Reading
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