"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"
#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."
#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"
Cover Reveal and 7 Poems: ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’
Above our heads a vertical shadow
vibrates
a shadow that flaps above our heads
Friday Finds: ‘Francophone Algerian Poets’
"Algerian Francophone literature is, one could say, a child of the twentieth century. It has its origins both in the struggle for independence—gained in 1962—and in Algerians’ determination to recount their own collective history and individual histories with the tools and resources of the French educational system, with its literature, past, and poetry, imposed on Algeria when it was a colony of France."
Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
Syrian Poet and Actor Fadwa Souleiman, 45
"For if you have crossed
So have we all"
Marilyn Hacker: ‘I might wish, like any citizen to celebrate my country’
Yesterday, Anis Shivani had a long interview in The Huffington Post with poet and translator Marilyn Hacker. For those unfamiliar with Hacker's work, she has won both the United States' National Book Award (for her Presentation Piece) and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen).
