Fady Joudah's most recent poetry collections are Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance and Tethered to Stars, both from Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of the poetry collections Alight and Textu, both released by Copper Canyon Press. He is the recipient of the Griffin International Poetry Prize in 2013 and is a Guggenheim fellow in poetry.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“To Be in a Time of War”: An Homage to Etel Adnan (1925-2021)
Fady Joudah adapts a chapter of “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country,” in homage to its author, Etel Adnan, who passed away on November 14....
My Palestinian Poem that “The New Yorker” Wouldn’t Publish
In May 2021 the poems I wrote came to me, and I received them — in Bergsonian durée, between ruptured continuity ...
Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence
Fady Joudah translates three timely, timeless poems by Maya Abu-Alhayyat, and Deema Shehabi, Lena Tuffaha, and Hala Alyan recite them....
Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence
It’s not difficult to hear “verdict” in the “sentence” above, just as it is hard to ignore the breathlessness of ...
Who Are You Without People?
In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in its carousel of loneliness, longing, and confusion that touches us all in ...
Corona Radiata: A New Poem
A new poem by Fady Joudah...
The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life....
The Silence That Remains: On Translating the Poems of Ghassan Zaqtan
Fady Joudah reflects on his translations of the Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan....
At the Borders of Our Tongue
PHILIP METRES is the author and translator of a number of books, including Sand Opera (Alice James 2015), I Burned at ...
For National Poetry Month: "Days of Valentine," "Forgiveness," "Dark Notes I," "Dark Notes II"
DAYS OF VALENTINE In their faraway land in the year of their deathor on the month of their maimingthey were children ...
In Memory of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
The Los Angeles Review of Books marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Mahmoud Darwish, one of the great poets of Palestine, with "Canvas on the Wall,” originally published in 1969 when Darwish was 28 years old....
The Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan Zaqtan
Support for Zaqtan upon Canada's refusal of visa...
The Gaza Poetry Roundtable: Part III
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation...
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