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The New York Times's James Glanz writes about the Israeli defense minister's comparison of Palestine's national poet, Mahmoud Darwish, to Adolf Hitler, after a program aired on independent radio station...

Mahmoud Darwish We were thrilled to hear the Darwish Awards going to Ghassan Zaqtan, Elias Khoury, and Alice Walker over the weekend. From Arabic Literature (In English): The Mahmoud Darwish Awards...

A new series of ads by Palestine Advocacy Project placed on San Francisco public transit vehicles uses Mahmoud Darwish's poetry in order to alert riders to the impacts and consequences...

In this Kenyon Review article about identity, empowerment, translating and writing poetry, Khaled Mattawa, one of this year's MacArthur Fellows, explains why translating Arab poets into English empowered him to...

Born in Texas, Zoe Tuck has been a participant in the Bay Area literary scene since 2008: she co-curated the Condensery Reading Series in Oakland and worked at Small Press...

Casa Libre in Tuscon is hosting a Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium May 9-12 and the lineup of poets and events sounds amazing. TC Tolbert, the trans and genderqueer poet...

Yves Klein in the Void Room (Raum der Leere), Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, January 1961. “I used to keep a list of books in which ‘the abyss’ appeared — the physical-metaphorical-metaphysical-condition-of-the-bottomless-existence-of-our-darkest-nightmares-realized abyss,”...