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Arab Culture / Art Exhibition / Intellectuals / Literature / Middle East / Painting / Performances / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

March 10, 2013

Poetic Voices of the Muslim World

This is a fabulous site and the whole project is excellent. Poets House & City Lore are to be congratulated for their pioneering work. I participated in the first installment here in New York...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Human rights / Middle East / Poetry / Translation

March 9, 2013

al-Ajami “Jasmine Revolution Poem”

Via Arabic Literature (in English): As We Wait on al-Ajami’s Final Appeal, a New Translation of ‘Jasmine Revolution Poem’ Posted on March 9, 2013 by mlynxqualey | Leave a comment A week and a half ago, a Qatari appeals court...

Algeria / Arab Culture / Essays / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

March 5, 2013

Tengour’s “Exile is my Trade” Reviewed

Laurie Price’s review on Amazon: Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader, edited & translated by Pierre Joris (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry 2012) (Paperback) To this reader, Exile Is My Trade turned out to...

Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

February 26, 2013

An ungathered Paul Celan Poem

The following poem was written 12.15.1962, during the period of composition of Die Niemandsrose, though not taken into that volume. Working on the later poem “Als uns das Weiße anfiel | When whiteness assailed...

Situationist International / Translation

February 20, 2013

New Translation of Vaneigem Classic

One of the most essential books for my own coming of (political) age in the sixties was Raoul Vaneigem’s Traité de Savoir-vivre…, one of the two core texts of the Situationist International (the other...

Paul Celan / Poetry / Translation

February 5, 2013

Two Uncollected Poems by Paul Celan

As I work on commentaries for my collected Paul Celan translations (not a Complete Collected Celan, just all my translations starting with Breathturn) a few poems never included in any volume, though now gathered in...

Arabic / Magazine / Middle East / Poetry / Translation

February 1, 2013

Shahadat : The City in Translation

Check out this issuu issue of Contemporary Literature in Translation, edited by Sousan Hammad: Intro Note: The rich collection in this issue of Shahadat reflects Sousan Hammad’s unique approach to translation as a form of collective...

Conference / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

January 31, 2013

Nomadic Travels and Travails Conference

International Poetry Seminar Moving Back and Forth between Poetry as/and Translation: Nomadic Travels and Travails with Alice Notley and Pierre Joris (7-8 November 2013, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Convener: Franca Bellarsi Co-convener : Peter Cockelbergh...

Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

January 24, 2013

Peter Paul Zahl (1944-2011)

Today two years ago, the German poet Peter Paul Zahl died in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Zahl was a German anarchist who turned author while spending ten years in prison in the 70s after shooting...

Book Launch / Poetry / Translation

January 19, 2013

Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets

My copy of The Sonnets just arrived. Lovely, lovely production & a really great enterprise! The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal Telephone, Shamila Cohen and Paul Legault, pairs 154...