“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
Read moreTwo 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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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.
Read moreSamira 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.”
Read moreFriday Finds: Samira Negrouche’s ‘Alba Rosa’
“You didn’t leave home / your home left you.”
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Friday Finds: Saniya Saleh’s ‘Autumn of Freedom’
“Beirut / I dreamed you were invaded / and awoke to the noise of destruction”
Read more#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.”
Read more#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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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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