Poetry

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of...

19 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

India Hixon Radfar reviews the newly-translated collection of poetry from a former prisoner in Syria.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By India Hixon Radfar
Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa Reviewed

Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa Reviewed

India Hixon Radfar reviews the first collection of poetry from Palestinian firebrand Mohammed El-Kurd.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By India Hixon Radfar
Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali Tonight    Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar                          —Laurence Hope...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Karima Ahdad
Poem: Bombs Do Not Discriminate

Poem: Bombs Do Not Discriminate

A young Gazan student who finished high school in Norway and looks forward to university in the US...

14 JULY 2021 • By Abdallah Salha
Poem: Letter to the Americans

Poem: Letter to the Americans

If a Gazan were to write an open letter to the Americans, whose government helps underwrite Israel's war...

14 JULY 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Four Poems from Mosab Abu Toha

Four Poems from Mosab Abu Toha

Mosab Abu Toha divides his time between a life in the United States and a life in Gaza....

14 JULY 2021 • By Mosab Abu Toha
The World Grows Blackthorn Walls

The World Grows Blackthorn Walls

A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.

14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller
Two Poems for Truth by Ammiel Alcalay

Two Poems for Truth by Ammiel Alcalay

Two new poems by Ammiel Alcalay, "Kashoggi or Kashog-ji?" and "Translation Theory", explore versions of the truth.

14 MARCH 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Biographer Marian Janssen reveals the big, brash, blonde feminist writer and poet Carolyn Kizer, who fascinated and shocked...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Marian Janssen
The Freedom You Want

The Freedom You Want

A poem for Syria by Mohja Kahf.

14 MARCH 2021 • By Charlie Faulkner
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