I'm thrilled to announce that my book Olio will be coming to life on stage with an amazing cast, the music of Janice Lowe, and the direction of Abigail Jean-Baptiste!

W. S. Merwin

Glad Ta-Nehisi Coates got to have a normal and healthy conversation about what remains a horrifying situation. youtube.com/watch?v=d0-y0X…

Hard to believe but I am a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellow! I am accepting the MacArthur Fellowship amidst the genocide happening in Gaza and indiscriminate terroristic attacks in Lebanon by the state of Israel on the 76th year of their occupation of Palestine macfound.org/fellows/class-…

In Fall 1982, MERIP produced a special issue on the war in Lebanon, including first hand reports of the fighting, perspectives from Elias Khoury, Salim Tamari, Zachary Lockman, Noam Chomsky, Judith Tucker, Joan Mandell, Nubar Hovsepian and more. bit.ly/47Nvm4x

happy birthday wallace stevens. azaleas and so on.

In May 2023 the 12th edition of the Palestine Festival of Literature took place in cities across occupied Palestine. Here, three authors – Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste and Eve Ewing - reflect on what they saw in Palestine. All interviews filmed in Palestine, May 2023.

NEW: A Primer on Lebanon -- History, Palestine and Resistance to Israeli Violence, from Lara Deeb, Maya Mikdashi (Maya Mikdashi), Tsolin Nalbantian (@bordeek), and Nadya Sbaiti. bit.ly/3Y8xIrw

Today is the pub-date for this book! I’m feeling so much gratitude to Milkweed Editions for saying yes to the book, and to Mary Austin Speaker for her genius design.

The soul an astonishing poem Omar Sakr

Eleni Sikelianos

FALL ISSUE COVER REVEAL! The Hopkins Review 2024 cover artist Gioncarlo Valentine’s fourth and final cover (collect them all!) will complete Volume 17 and features his photograph “Jona and Quest.”

"I've been pulling up buckets of water from the camp's well, searching for words for my epic." Reading Mosab Abu Toha's incredible, vital new book of poetry.

"then our calories were colonized not as a metaphor is colonized." Fady Joudah leaving me breathless yet again. This is how my devastation is today. proteanmag.com/2024/10/25/hun…

Subscribe today and you'll receive Issue 17.4, featuring Daniel Schonning's poetry, as your first issue. Daniel Schonning (Headshot credit: Bethany Bradley)

Happy to see Small Rain on Vulture's Best Books of 2024. Many thanks to Isle McElroy for these kind words. vulture.com/article/best-b…

Poem by Fady Joudah.

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my usual self-doubt, with gratitude to Sarabande Books and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025. 🖤 sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/m…

A ceasefire in Lebanon may be near, but as the authors of our recent primer on Lebanon and resistance to Israeli violence explained, resolution necessarily includes respect and recognition of both Lebanese and Palestinian sovereignty. bit.ly/3Y8xIrw

Well, it’s happening! My first book, Ghost in the Archive, has been accepted for publication. Thank you to everyone who has supported me through this process, and I’m excited to work with Bob Hicok and William Waltz Conduit Books & Ephemera on the next stages of this soon-to-be book!