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December 24, 2015

Claude Pélieu, poet & collagist extraordinaire…

…left us on this day, 13 years ago. Which I suddenly realized as this morning I set to gather a dossier on his work for an issue of a French magazine (L’Homme sans épaules) to...

Man-made Disaster / Mashreq / Petition / Poet / Poetry / Poetry readings / Politics

December 16, 2015

Appeal for Poet Ashraf Fayadh

Poet Ashraf Fayadh’s Appeal Filed; Worldwide Reading to Protest His Death Sentence Jan 14 BY MLYNXQUALEY on DECEMBER 16, 2015 • ( 1 ) The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) is calling on “all individuals,...

Poet / Poetry

October 28, 2015

New Beltrametti Book

Franco Beltrametti Poems Blackberry Books has just published “From Almost Everywhere – selected poems 1965-1995” by Franco Beltrametti. This book collects Franco’s poems as well as a color insert of paintings, an interview with...

Poet / Poetry / Poetry Cuisine

September 25, 2015

Happy Birthday, Robert Kelly!

Happy 80th birthday, Robert! Below the clickable cover of the Festschrift for the occasion that Metambesen publishes today, and below that my own festish Schrift piece for Robert. A Memoir: for Robert at 80 I came to...

Obituaries / Poet / Poetry

July 30, 2015

Kenneth Irby (November 18, 1936 – July 30, 2015)

Profound sadness at the passing of an old friend, a major poet — whose work is way underappreciated in this, his country —, a great lover of literature, landscape and music. Below a poem from...

Poet / Poetry

July 27, 2015

Lee, Again

As I opened the beautiful Fulcrum Press hard-cover edition of Lee’s The White Room, out fell a letter and typescript of the poem “Old Bosham Bird Watch”, which you can read in toto in...

Intellectuals / Mashreq / Poet

April 11, 2015

Amjad Nasser: ‘We Have to Listen More to Reality Than We Used To’

by mlynxqualey Amjad Nasser is not Amjad Nasser: “Amjad Nasser” is the pen name of a poet, journalist, travel-writer, and novelist who was forced to leave his native Jordan when he was just 21. After that, he lived...

Obituaries / Poet

January 5, 2015

James Koller (1936-2014)

For Jim Koller now traveling the Great Barzakh, the In -be- tween that’s all we have when it all comes down to it I see you walking down that road & on the other side...

Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Poet / Poetics / Poetry / Radio / Translator

November 6, 2014

Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014)

Abdelwahab Meddeb passed away in the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Paris. Born in Tunis in 1946, he was a poet, scholar, writer, translator, traveller, magazine editor (“Dédale“), book editor (as series editor with Editions...

Obituaries / Palestine / Poet / Poetry

August 20, 2014

Palestinian Poet Samih al-Qasim Dies at 75

Via the always excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 20, 2014 • ( 4 ) I don’t like you, death But I’m not afraid of you And I know that my body is your bed And my...