Nomadics

February 27, 2016

Rue Abdelwahab Meddeb à El-Omrane

A street has been named for poet & essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946—2014) in el-Omrane, his native quarter in the city of Tunis. I am of course very pleased that his hometown is acknowledging Abdelwahab’s...

Israel / Palestine

February 26, 2016

Darwish & Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine

via Tom Clark’s Beyond the Pale. MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2016 Mahmoud Darwish: Psalm 9 (“O rose beyond the reach of time and of the senses”) / Stop Paying for Ethnic Cleansing and Send Your...

Climate Change

February 23, 2016

Sea-level rise past and future

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 02/23/2016 (embargo expired) Sea-level rise past and future: robust estimates for coastal planners Sea-levels worldwide will likely rise by 50 to 130 centimeters...

Obituaries / Poetry

February 21, 2016

Michel Deguy: A Feast at Eco’s

La Fête chez Eco Umberto, ton idole dans nos mémoires d’hôte faunesque renaissant mallarméen enjouant tes amis sur les pipeaux du soir nous hanta tout cet été ménippéen Mon esprit trop français monoglotte et...

Arab Culture / Censorship

February 20, 2016

Egyptian Appeals Court Sentences Novelist Ahmed Naji to Two Years

BY MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 20, 2016 • ( 0 ) In a tremendous blow to Egypt’s novelists, publishers and readers, the Bulaq Criminal Court today sentenced experimental novelist Ahmed Naji to two years in prison...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Arabic / Islamic Fundamentalists / Mashreq / Middle East / Poet

February 19, 2016

Adonis in Osnabruck

Last September I wrote a blog entry about the Syrian poet Adonis receiving the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the city of Osnabrück & the resistance from a range of quarters to this...

Uncategorized

February 18, 2016

Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016)

Arab Culture / Arabic / Translation

February 16, 2016

Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and the Politics of Translation

The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 festival rolls on, with a poetry readings by Hala Alyan and DC-area Arab-American poets forthcoming February 20 and 21. Elizabeth Kelley was at two of the early February...

Poetics / Poetry

February 15, 2016

INTRODUCTION TO « ANTHOLOGIE POÉSIE INTERNATIONALE »

Thinking back on my last post on Jacket2 (Dada to Daesh) I realized that the sense of poetry I was proposing (defending?) has been with me for a long time. So, here a short piece...

Essays / Poetics / Poetry

February 13, 2016

Michael Peverett on Lee Harwood

Excellent essay on Lee Harwood at Intercapillary Space. Here’s the opening section: Six notes about Lee Harwood (while reading Penguin Modern Poets 19) by Michael Peverett 1. The English Channel Paul Nash, painting of...