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Conference / Poetics / Poetry / Poetry readings / Poets / Translation

November 1, 2013

Moving Back and Forth between Poetry and / as Translation

further details tomorrow on this blog…

Essays / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

October 29, 2013

Jerome Rothenberg Reading from ‘Eye of Witness’

Here, the first 10 minutes (then my iPhone claimed fullness) of Jerome Rothenberg’s reading (at Page 22 this past Sunday) from EYE OF WITNESS, his amazing new book just out from Black Widow Press....

Arab Culture / Celebration / Cultural Studies / Essays / Jewish Culture / Mashreq / Middle East / Philosophy / Poetry / Translation

October 25, 2013

Celebrate Ammiel Alcalay’s “After Jews and Arabs”

Book Launch / Translation

October 22, 2013

Mircea Cărtărescu & “Blinding” in Brooklyn

Wish I could be there (but am stuck in California)! TONIGHT: Mircea Cărtărescu & Eric Banks at Community Bookstore Dear Friends, We hope you’ll join us tonight in welcoming Mircea Cărtărescu, bestselling Romanian author of...

Live Reading / Performances / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized / Video / Visual Arts

October 21, 2013

San Diego Area Events

UCSD New Writing Series: Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte Event Type: Poetry Reading Event Date and Time: October 23, 2013 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Description: UCSD’s New Writing Series is excited to announce...

Arab Culture / Poetry / Translation

October 20, 2013

Poem by Adonis (re Syria, I take it)

The air, misshapen. The country’s entrails, shredded by its children’s fingernails, the crossroads robed in dust lit up by their wrinkles, arrayed in clothes woven from their steps. Who will tell...

Arab Culture / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

October 4, 2013

From the Diwan of Mansur al-Hallaj

A few days ago Jerry Rothenberg published some of my translations of the work of the 10C Baghdadi poet & mystic Mansur al-Hallaj (who is also central to my recent book of poems, Meditations...

Algeria / Amazigh Poetry / Arab Culture / Berber Literature / Conference / Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

September 24, 2013

Maghreb Anthology Presentation @ NYU

Essays / Poetry / Translation

September 17, 2013

Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader

Yesterday, Monday (September 16), was the official publication date for Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, co-edited with Heriberto Yépez & published by Black Widow Press (Joe Philips & Susan Wood) in Boston. I...

Celebration / Language / Middle East / Obituaries / Painting / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetry / Translation

August 9, 2013

Mahmood Darwish, Five Years Already

Last night, just before falling asleep I was reading in Pascal Quignard’s Sur le jadis (volume 2 of his Dernier Royaume series) & came across the following sentence: “C’est une plaie qui cherche son...