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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