poetry

Palestinian poet, translator win prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 21:56
Ghassan Zaqtan was nearly prevented from receiving award when Canada initially refused to issue him visa.

Poet Kevin Coval: young Jews should stand with Palestine

Alexander Billet
Chicago
10 June 2013

Poet Kevin Coval denounces Israeli rap star for “making Zionism chic.”

WATCH: Remi Kanazi's new poem, "Nakba," about his grandmother's expulsion in 1948

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:19
Remi Kanazi’s intimate poem honors his grandmother, who was forcibly displaced from her home in Palestine during the 1948 Nakba.

Five Pillars of Islam inspire humanitarian message in new bilingual poetry collection

Sarah Irving
1 May 2013

Iyad Hayatleh, a Palestinian poet raised in Damascus and now living in Britain, teamed up with Scottish literary figure Tessa Ransford.

Palestinians shouldn't be covered in "blanket of sadness," says poet

Sarah Irving
27 February 2013

Protest and poetry are “inseparable twins,” according to a new Al Jazeera documentary series.

Links between struggle and art probed in new book on Palestinian poets

Sarah Irving
21 January 2013

Verse penned under Israeli occupation has been both revolutionary and introspective.

Emerging from an “age of defeat”: interview with poet Ghassan Zaqtan

Lauren Pyott
Edinburgh
7 December 2012

Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s shattered Palestinian dreams.

WATCH: Remi Kanazi video debuts blistering new poem against the injustice of normalization

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 14:18

“I don’t wanna normalize with you… Did I hurt your feelings?” — so go two lines in Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi’s brilliant new spoken-word poem.

Remembering Adrienne Rich: poet, activist and supporter of Palestinian liberation

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 14:46

American poet, activist and teacher Adrienne Rich passed away yesterday at age 82.

"Words flower from fragile bodies": the poignant poetry of Lisa Suheir Majaj

Patricia Sarrafian Ward
6 February 2012
Poet Lisa Suheir Majaj writes exquisitely of the profound personal and collective loss that defines Palestinian history in her book, Geographies of Light.

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