Month: January 2015

‘A Letter in My Purse’: From Slain Poet Shaimaa El-Sabbagh

BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 26, 2015 • ( 0 ) Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, the activist who was shot dead at a rally in Tahrir Square yesterday, was also a poet:A letter in my purse By Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, trans. Maged Zaher ————————– I am not sure Truly, she was nothing more than just a purse But when lost, there was a problem How to face the world without her Especially Because the streets … Read more ‘A Letter in My Purse’: From Slain Poet Shaimaa El-Sabbagh

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Sinan Antoon First to Win Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Self-translation

Via  Arabic Literature (in English). BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 20, 2015 • ( 2 ) Iraqi novelist, poet, and translator Sinan Antoon has won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for bringing his own novel, The Corpse Washer, into English: The 2014 prize was awarded to Antoon for his translation of hisThe Corpse Washer, originally titled The Pomegranate Alone and published by Yale University Press in 2013. Meanwhile, Paula Haydar got a “highly … Read more Sinan Antoon First to Win Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Self-translation

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Uri Avnery: Waving in the first Row

January 17, 2015 THE THREE Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if they had lived to see it. By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they spread panic throughout France, brought millions of people onto the streets, gathered more than 40 heads of states in Paris. They changed the landscape of the French capital and other French cities by mobilizing thousands of soldiers … Read more Uri Avnery: Waving in the first Row

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Four of nine planetary boundaries now crossed

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research  01/16/2015 Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, says an international team of 18 researchers in the journal Science. The four are: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, altered biogeochemical cycles. The scientists say that two of these, climate change and biosphere integrity, are “core boundaries” – significantly altering … Read more Four of nine planetary boundaries now crossed

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A Poem by Serge Pey

A New Name for Newborns   When I was born my mother gave me a name I didn’t choose out of all the alphabets and letters   I’ve carried it around nonstop I’ve used it as my address my signature it’s even on my tomb it’s in the silence of photos people take of me   But as of this morning I’ve changed my name and address From now … Read more A Poem by Serge Pey

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Imprisoned Poet Ashraf Fayadh’s ‘Frida Kahlo’s Mustache’

via Arab Literature (in English) by mlynxquale Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh has now gone more than a year without trial in Saudi prisons on the ostensible charge that he’s been “insulting the Godly self” through his poetry, as well as “having long hair”: Poet and activist Mona Kareem has translated one of Fayadh’s poems, posted online on Laghoo. Frida Kahlo’s Mustache By Ashraf Fayadh, trans. Mona Kareem I will ignore the smell of … Read more Imprisoned Poet Ashraf Fayadh’s ‘Frida Kahlo’s Mustache’

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Reading at The Shed

The Shed proudly invites you, on next Saturday, January 17th at 8 pm, to ALL LINED UP, a display and reading of broadsides printed by Soho Letterpress. Broadsides on display include Vyt Bakaitis, Joe Elliot, Elaine Equi, Norman Fischer, Nada Gordon, Mitch Highfill, Pierre Joris, Burt Kimmelman, Andrew Levy, Kimberly Lyons, Trace Peterson, Nicole Peyrafitte, Douglas Rothschild, Jerome Sala and Christina Strong. Refreshments will be served after the reading. … Read more Reading at The Shed

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