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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Rebecca Schneid |Fady Joudah
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Fady Joudah
“Is the language of his killers not part of our life?
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
proteanmag.com | Fady Joudah
I was the tree, the stalk,and my children, the leaves, the crop,then our calories were colonizednot as a metaphor is colonized. Then starvation harvested miracles for us,and solidarity spokein a bubble. Not allbubbles are gassed equal. To be the noise you can be in the bubble,your gas must exceed your liquid,but a bubble wants more. A bubble tsar, you coagulate,coalesce into a steady state,and plant my flag in your bubble. Sometimes awesome acoustics.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
proteanmag.com | Fady Joudah
The Stench Full on the genocidaires are_____fully evacuating the people_____ they’ve been evacuating for months_____the carousel without roof_____ or shadow_____ or saddled magical creatures______ and just hours ago the soldiers_____ shot a hungry horse in the head _____watched it convulse while hitched to the cart it pulls in front of the house _____“the guards laughing” _____ the people on foot with fewer belongings than the last time _____to nowhere somewhere nearby wounded_____ divergent...
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Fady Joudah |Jessi Jezewska Stevens |Can Xue
they said, they didn’t sayon what. I am not a window,The window was on the ground floor. The room had a working door. The building was on fire. You were plotting our stay. I lost my elevation chart. I was uncouth. You to the hilt. I kissed your cave on the mouth:it wasn’t goodbye, wasn’t hello. We were naked, in disguise. Planning one sound for history,
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Fady Joudah |Thomas Larson
[…]In the arboretum the mosquitoes were polite. They purchased our blood for a fair price as we paused for the flowers. My iPhone identified the plants. Delete, reinstall. The truthrides photons, always arrivingbeautiful, like God, periodically dead or terminated. Hibiscus. Marigold. My intelligenceoffers my ignorance hope,my wish manacles me to it. We needed memory, we got myelin. Slow at first to guard usfrom the animal we’re destined to suppress,rise above. And then fast,foaming at the terabyte.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
mizna.org | Fady Joudah |George Abraham
How Is Your Devastation Today? By They say the father refusedto be a collaborator. And the mother,a physician, a specific kind of witness,had looked at her killers the wrong way. — Fady JoudahDid a particular morning birdsong visit it? Did innocent grumblingabout a meaningless desirethat has become the meaning of all desirefrom one of your kids distract you from it?
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Fady Joudah
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed. 2024. 100 pages. Poetry is so often an art of reflection, but in certain times a poet is called in the moment to respond to the atrocities of the world with immediacy. What’s rare is that a publisher heeds that call and is able to bring that work to the world in short order. Such is the context for Fady Joudah’s latest collection, [. .
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
poetrytranslation.org | Maya Abu Al-Hayyat |Maya Abu al-Hayyat |Fady Joudah
Tuesday 4th June 2024We are proud to present the 2024 shortlist for the Sarah Maguire Prize for poetry in translation.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Fady Joudah
I hereby confer upon youthe degree: From the river to the sea. Effective immediately,you graduate the river I resignto the sea that returnsthrough the underground. It’s not a riverfor transporting corpses, the seanot a mass gravefrom sea to shining sea. And this is why I won’t take questions fromthe dossier of straitlaced lies,but will hold on to my key. Knock, knock. Who’s there? Vertical. Vertical who? From the river to the sea. Arrested, detained, endangered, drained:What do we release?
