Naomi Shihab Nye: Blood
Homeless fig, this tragedy with a terrible root
is too big for us. What flag can we wave?
I wave the flag of stone and seed,
table mat stitched in blue.
February 19, 2023 · 17 Comments
Majid Naficy: On the Booksellers’ Street of Baghdad
I saw Mutanabbi returning from Persia.
He had heard the sound of Tigris, by the Kor River
Calling him back to Baghdad.
January 4, 2022 · Leave a comment
Angele Ellis: Dances of Death | In Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling, an experimental young Syrian poet makes his book-length debut in English
What would happen in this vast dagger
If America stopped eating human flesh
For three days?
October 15, 2021 · 6 Comments
Lara Harb: The meaning of cowardly dogs and other puzzles of Arabic poetry
The evocation of wonder was the main goal of classical Arabic poetry.
September 3, 2021 · 2 Comments
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