Guest columnist Maha Tourbah considers the advent of the Spring Equinox, Zoroastrian Nowruz and hopes for peace.
21 MARCH 2022 • By Micaela Amateau Amato
Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun
Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
L.A. Armenian poet and activist Sophia Armen is an American original.
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Sophia Armen
Poet and novelist Laila Halaby writes her Los Angeles experience in a cascade of words that indelibly capture...
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Abeer Esber
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
Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller
Reviewer Patrick James Dunagan on poetry that strives to cope with the anguish of Israel's decades-long military occupation...
28 MARCH 2021 • By Sherifa Zuhur
Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
18 years in the making, this winter Upset Press will publish a new volume of poems by former...
14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Rebecca C. Johnson
December 12, 2020 marks the 95th birthday of the revolutionary and controversial Iranian poet, translator, essayist, editor, encyclopedist,...
12 DECEMBER 2020 • By Niloufar Talebi
