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15 July, 2022 • Youssef Rakha

Poetry as a Form of Madness—Review of a Friendship

Youssef Rahka introduces us to his Egyptian friend Maged Zaher and his seventh volume of poetry, composed in English.

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4 July, 2022 • Eman Quotah

Poems of Palestinian Motherhood, Loss, Desire and Hope

Eman Quotah reviews the new poetry collection from Palestinian poet Maya Abu-Alhayyat, translated by Fady Joudah.

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11 April, 2022 • Deborah Kapchan

Zajal — the Darija Poets of Morocco

Author and Darija translator Deborah Kapchan recalls her friendship with two of Morocco's greatest contemporary poets.

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21 March, 2022 • Maha Tourbah

Nowruz and The Sins of the New Day

Guest columnist Maha Tourbah considers the advent of the Spring Equinox, Zoroastrian Nowruz and hopes for peace.

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15 March, 2022 • Abbas Baydoun, Lily Sadowsky

“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”

Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating sweets.

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15 March, 2022 • Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three Poems of Love and Desire by Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war within war, by exiled Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah.

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15 February, 2022 • Sophia Armen

Two Poems by Sophia Armen

L.A. Armenian poet and activist Sophia Armen is an American original.

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15 February, 2022 • Laila Halaby

L.A. Story: Poems from Laila Halaby

Poet and novelist Laila Halaby writes her Los Angeles experience in a cascade of words that indelibly capture moments and memories.

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19 November, 2021 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

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 the late polymath Etel Adnan, 1925-2021.

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15 November, 2021 • Jenny Pollak

Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

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

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14 May, 2021 • Sholeh Wolpé

The World Grows Blackthorn Walls

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

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28 March, 2021 • Patrick James Dunagan

“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish

Reviewer Patrick James Dunagan on poetry that strives to cope with the anguish of Israel's decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian people.

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14 March, 2021 • Gil Anidjar

Poetry Against the State

Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we have stopped listening to the poets."

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14 December, 2020 • Faraj Bayrakdar

Freedom is femininity: Faraj Bayrakdar

18 years in the making, this winter Upset Press will publish a new volume of poems by former Syrian political prisoner and cause célèbre Faraj Bayrakdar.

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12 December, 2020 • Niloufar Talebi

To Be or Not to Be, That is Not the Question

December 12, 2020 marks the 95th birthday of the revolutionary and controversial Iranian poet, translator, essayist, editor, encyclopedist, and cultural figure, Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000).

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