New Poem from Gaza: Basman Aldirawi’s ‘This Bread Was Born, This Bread Was Killed’
From Gaza, writer and poet Basman Aldirawi — one of the contributors to Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire — shares new work. You can get the ebook of Light in […]
Poetry
After Postponed Launch of Arabic Poetry Anthology in Berlin, Editor Pulls Back
On October 5 of this year, Ghayath Almadhoun says, Haus für Poesie Berlin organizers sent him an email. In it, they told the Palestinian-Syrian poet that they were pleased that several […]
Sunday Submissions: Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize for Women Translators of Women Poets
The Malinda A Markham Translation Prize — which honors the life and work of poet and translator Malinda A. Markham — is open to submissions through the end of October. […]
Lit & Found: Weekly Arabic Poetry Newsletter
This wasn’t perhaps a difficult find — as we have built this Wednesday newsletter out of poems previously published on ArabLit or in ArabLit Quarterly — but, in any event, […]
Monday Poetry: Two Readings by Mona Kareem and Sara Elkamel
Last May, poet-translator team Mona Kareem and Sara Elkamel launched I Will Not Fold These Maps, a collection of Kareems poems translated to English by Elkamel. Among the launch events was one […]
Sunday Submissions: Modern Poetry in Translation ‘Water’ Focus
Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) have opened calls for submissions for its forthcoming issue, with ‘water’ as its theme. They write: For our November 2023 issue, we invite new translations […]
Lit & Found: On Humor in Poetry and Translation
“If you are trying to avoid reproducing violence or trauma as it is, if you are trying to distill something in it that evokes something that makes it relatable, or accessible to a stranger—to make it vulnerable—humor plays a beautiful role there.”
A Poem from ALQ: Fowziyah Abu Khalid’s ‘Wedding’
“I’ve been dreaming of a wedding since the splash of / the first wet ink”
Poetry Book Celebration! “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi.