Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war...
MARCH 15, 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
L.A. Armenian poet and activist Sophia Armen is an American original.
FEBRUARY 15, 2022 • By Sophia Armen
Poet and novelist Laila Halaby writes her Los Angeles experience in a cascade of words that indelibly capture...
FEBRUARY 15, 2022 • By Abeer Esber
Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of...
NOVEMBER 19, 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.
NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
MAY 14, 2021 • By Taylor Miller
Reviewer Patrick James Dunagan on poetry that strives to cope with the anguish of Israel's decades-long military occupation...
MARCH 28, 2021 • By Sherifa Zuhur
Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we...
MARCH 14, 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
18 years in the making, this winter Upset Press will publish a new volume of poems by former...
DECEMBER 14, 2020 • By Rebecca C. Johnson
December 12, 2020 marks the 95th birthday of the revolutionary and controversial Iranian poet, translator, essayist, editor, encyclopedist,...
DECEMBER 12, 2020 • By Niloufar Talebi
I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in...
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 • By gethan&myles
