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New Poetry after Darwish: ‘In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours’
The great twentieth-century poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day in 1941. Today, author-translator Alaa Alqaisi shares a letter to Darwish and a poem, after Darwish’s “In Praise of the High...
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Fadwa Tuqan: ‘The Last Flower atop Memory’s Stone’
The Last Flower atop Memory’s Stone By Fadwa Tuqan Translated by Adey Almohsen What follows is a short poem by Fadwa Tuqan, one of Palestine’s most eminent poets. The poem did not make it to her...
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Two Poems by Haitham K. Al-Zubbaidi
A Helmet of Brass By Haitham K. Al-Zubbaidi Translated by Ali Layth Azeez Nothing in me betrays the clouds’ expectations except that I am so deep in aridity. Nothing in me stirs the stars’ wonder...
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New Poetry in Translation: Enter ‘Butterfly’s Burden’
Enter “Butterfly’s Burden” By Dalia Taha Translated by Sara Elkamel for Mahmoud Darwish I picked up “The Butterfly’s Burden” and could not put it down. Every poem I read, I read again, and it was...
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New Poetry by Hameed Qasim: ‘Baghdad Melancholy’
Baghdad Melancholy By Hameed Qasim Translated by Ghareeb Iskander 1 When I went out I forgot my scent in her room And I left—by mistake—my fingers on the bed, searching For the salt of her body...
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A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna
A RESONANT DEATH Edited and translated by Batool Abu Akleen Fatima Hassouna is a young Palestinian writer, photographer, and journalist who was born and raised in Gaza. A couple of years ago, Fatima...
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GRIEF Preview: Nasser Rabah’s ‘A Swarm of Ants’
The Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly is coming in three days — on April 30, 2025. Today, a poem from the issue in Wiam El-Tamami’s translation. A Swarm of Ants By Nasser Rabah Translated by...
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‘A Resonant Death’: A Poem After Fatima Hassouna
A Resonant Death After Fatima Hassouna By Basman Eldirawi This massacre shrinks homes into tents— You sing with the displaced birds at its door. This massacre shrinks the light into darkness— Your...
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‘Happy Birthday’: A Poem for Nakba Day
Happy Birthday By Basman Eldirawi Tr. M Lynx Qualey For May 15, 2025 Happy Birthday By Basman Eldirawi For May 15, 2025 I’ll make a deal with a dream, with an angel passing by my bedside, so...
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New Poetry: ‘trapped cravings’
trapped cravings By Shaimaa Abulebda howling in the air the wind outside the heart inside unsettled and troubled; whooshing in the air the trees outside the breath inside vulnerable and weak;...
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