Nomadics

May 21, 2016

Uri Avnery: On Ya’ir Golan & Avigdor Lieberman

May 21, 2016 I Was There “PLEASE DON’T write about Ya’ir Golan!” a friend begged me, “Anything a leftist like you writes will only harm him!” So I abstained for some weeks. But I...

Literature / Uncategorized

May 20, 2016

Novelistic Sloppiness

On my mind, this morning? Last night’s irritation: I had walked into McNally Jackson, my last (not least) favorite Manhattan bookshop, to browse new books & came upon Max Frisch’s Montauk (which I had reread...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Translation / Uncategorized

May 18, 2016

Kareem James Abu-Zeid on Al-Mutanabbi and the art of translation

Poetics / Poetry / Poetry Archives

May 17, 2016

Steven Kushner’s Cloud House on the Move

[via Jerome Rothenberg’s Poems & Poetics blog. Note by J.R.: Since 1970 Steven Kushner (“Kush”) has been known to many of us as the founder & sole proprietor of Cloud House, an amazing &...

"Arab Spring" / Egypt

May 16, 2016

Day of Blogging for Ahmed Naji: His Reading Recommendations

BY MLYNXQUALEY on MAY 16, 2016 • ( 0 ) From noon on Monday, May 16 through noon on Tuesday, May 17, the world will host a “Day of Blogging for Ahmed Naji.” This comes...

Israel / Palestine / Uncategorized

May 12, 2016

Uri Avnery on Israel’s Declaration of Independence

May 14, 2016 A Document with a Mission WHEN DAVID BEN-GURION read out Israel’s declaration of independence (officially: “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel”) on May 14, 1948, I was in...

Uncategorized

May 8, 2016

Litmus Press Spring Open Call & More!

Spring open call, Companion Animal wins Norma Farber First Book Award, Restless Continent release Friends, We’re very pleased to announce our spring open call for single-author first-book poetry manuscripts in English. We will be...

Criticism / Experimental Writing / Intellectuals / Literature / Magazine / Poetics / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

May 1, 2016

A Sulfur Anthology: Clayton Eshleman, ed.

Clayton Eshleman started his first magazine, Caterpillar, in New York City in the fall of 1967 — the very same moment I moved from Europe to the US. It wasn’t until some time in...

Israel / Palestine / Poem / Poetry

April 27, 2016

The Poem for Which Dareen Tatour’s Under House Arrest: ‘Resist, My People, Resist Them’

via Arabic Literature (in English) & BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 27, 2016 • ( 1 ) The year 2015, according to a new report by Hamleh (The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media),...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Mashreq / Middle East / Poetry Festival / Poetry readings / Translation

April 20, 2016

Arabic Poetry Conference @ Boise State University

ARAB POETRY CONFERENCE مرءتمر الثعر العربي Thursday 4/21/16 3-5pm. Panel: On Arab Literature Today. Bishop Barnwell Room 3-4: MAGHREB: Pierre Joris & Habib Tengour present Poems for the Millennium Maghreb Anthology 4-5: MASHREQ: Osama Alomar...