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22 April, 2025 • A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan presents “The Tailor” and “HEX”

Poet A. Van Jordan presents his latest hybrid work celebrating Black youth, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.

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18 April, 2025 • Sean Casey

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as an immigrant in America.

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7 March, 2025 • Katie Logan

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

In making sense of her own relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The Prophet" in new ways.

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21 February, 2025 • Sonnet Mondal

Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems

Celebrated Indian poet Sonnet Mondal presents work from his Copper Coin collection "An Afternoon in My Mind."

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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.

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19 December, 2024 • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Two Poems

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha won the 2024 National Book Award for her latest collection of poems, "Something About Living."

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19 December, 2024 • Annahita Mahdavi West

Annahita Mahdavi West: Two Poems

Iranian American poet Annahita Mahdavi West presents two poems, "Exile" and "City of War" from her book "Dusty Relic."

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19 December, 2024 • Darius Atefat-Peckham

Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection, "Book of Kin," follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident.

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16 August, 2024 • Badar Salem

“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem

In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West Bank resistance fighter who winds up in solitary confinement.

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7 June, 2024 • William Gourlay

A Bicentennial Remembrance of Lord Byron, Among Greeks & Turks

Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world to European audiences.

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8 May, 2024 • Sahar Muradi

Sahar Muradi presents two poems from OCTOBERS

Heartbreak and echoes, as a poet recalls the US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter.

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3 May, 2024 • Youssef Rakha

Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Youssef Rakha revisits his fascination with Sargon Boulos who managed to live out poetic Arabness in exile as nobody else did.

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4 February, 2024 • Sean Casey

Arthur Kayzakian’s Stolen Painting and The Nameless Father

Sean Casey on a rather unusual and remarkable debut from Arthur Kayzakian that melds poetry, prose and correspondence.

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4 February, 2024 • Alaa Hassanien, Salma Moustafa Khalil

Four Poems by Alaa Hassanien from The Love That Doubles Loneliness

Emotions of modern romance are found in Alaa Hasanin’s "The Love That Doubles Loneliness," translated from Arabic by Salma Moustafa Khalil.

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3 December, 2023 • Maryam Mahjoba, Zubair Popalzai

“Kabul’s Haikus”—fiction from Maryam Mahjoba

In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.

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