Dunya Mikhail دنيا ميخائيل Ani Gjika “I allow some type of communication between the text in Arabic and the text in English. They behave like true lovers, which means that they develop together without imposing too much on each other". —@dundyamikhail

Join me Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 11 am EST for an interview with Dunya Mikhail, Iraqi American poet and writer. Dunya is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffon Poetry Prize), Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea(winner of the

To commemorate International Women's Day, we are sharing five books from the Prize's past which are inspired by and celebrate the female experience #fiction #internationalwomensday

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine… Foundation Today, Poetry Foundation selected "In Her Feminine Sign" as poemoftheday. هنا النسخة العربية من القصيدة: الغريبة بتائها المربوطة لكل شيء جنس في اللغة العربية. التاريخ ذكر الحِكاية أنثى الحلم ذكر الأمنية أنثى. دائرة فوقها نقطتان يقولون مضفورة

Join me at the #worldvoicesfestival with Tahir H. Izgil Dunya Mikhail دنيا ميخائيل @etafrum and for a PEN World Voices Festival panel “Writing as Resistance” on 5/3 @ 3PM

Join me at the #worldvoicesfestival with Radu Vancu and moderator Nancy Naomi Carlson for a PEN World Voices Festival panel “Dialogues: Poetry in Conversation,” on 5/2 @ 8PM

Join me at the #worldvoicesfestival with Tahir H. Izgil @etafrum and moderator Mojgan Ghazirad for a PEN World Voices Festival panel “Writing as Resistance,” on 5/3 @ 3PM

“Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit. The sun does not shine on itself… Living for others is a rule of nature.” — Pope Francis "لاتشرب الانهارُ مياهَها، ولا تأكل الاشجارُ من فاكهتها. الشمس لاتشرق على نفسها… العيش من أجل الآخرين هو قانون

In Dunya Mikhail's work, the mythic, the journalistic, and the poetic meet; war transforms into a Type A character, and Enheduana talks with Siri in a dream. My latest in The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

“Dunya Mikhail has long been building a dictionary of symbols—the shell, the flower, the stars—that recur across her books. In Tablets she takes the logical next step and creates her own cuneiform.” —Anna Della Subin go.nybooks.com/4jaO0az

Hard to put into words just how meaningful these past couple of weeks in Morocco have been—Rabat, Marrakech, a glimpse of Casablanca—all wrapped in memories I’ll carry with me for a long time. What stood out most? The warmth and generosity of the Moroccan people. From the devoted

“Over the past four decades, Dunya Mikhail has written of Iraq, its histories of invasion and loss, and the experience of exile in a voice so disarmingly direct it seems to become oracular.” —Anna Della Subin go.nybooks.com/3H1yEI0

You are welcome to this free and open to the public poetry reading on Wednesday, June the 11th at 6pm at Schuler Books in Ann Arbor قراءة شعرية برفقة الشاعرتين كيتي هارتسوك وايلين ستون في آن آربر يوم الأربعاء المصادف ١١ حزيران في الساعة السادسة مساءً. الدعوة عامة

What an honor and joy to walk beside Edward Hirsch at Lit Walk by the Lake! We’ll be reading poetry at 2 p.m., but you’re welcome to come earlier—starting at noon—to hear other wonderful poets in a celebration of poetry, music, and community. Join us Saturday, June 21st, at

Cuneiform lives on in the poetry of Dunya Mikhail syriacpress.com/blog/2025/07/1…

صدور كتاب جديد لدنيا ميخائيل: «ألواح: أسرار الطين» al-aalem.com/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D…

On a scroll: MENA poets you can’t ignore cosmopolitanme.com/life/mena-poets

بان العزاوي ليست خبراً عابراً. هي وجهٌ وحياة قُطِعت ظلماً وهمجيةً، ومعها وجوه كثيرة لنساء عراقيات تم اغتيالهن مرتين: مرّة بالقتل، ومرة بالصمت والتبرير. كنتُ قد وافقتُ على المشاركة في ”مؤتمر المثقفين العراقيين الأوّل“ في بغداد خلال شهر أكتوبر القادم. اليوم أعلن انسحابي منه، وأرفضُ

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