Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015

<h4>Dara Barnat's poetry appears widely in journals in the United States and Israel. She is the author of the chapbook <em>Headwind Migration</em> (2009), as well as translations and essays. Dara holds a PhD from the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University, and her research explores Walt Whitman's influence on Jewish American Poetry. Dara teaches poetry and creative writing. She lives in Tel Aviv and New York City. <a href="http://darabarnat.com/">http://darabarnat.com/</a></h4>
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Dara Barnat

Truth in the Poetry of Chana Bloch

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

<strong>Fady Joudah's most recent poetry collections are&nbsp;<i>Footnotes in the Order</i><i> of</i><i> Disappearance</i><em>&nbsp;</em>and <i>Tethered to Stars</i>, both from Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of the poetry collections&nbsp;<em>Alight</em> and <em>Textu, </em>both&nbsp;released by Copper Canyon Press. He is the recipient of the Griffin International Poetry Prize in 2013 and is a Guggenheim fellow in poetry.</strong>

Fady Joudah

<h4>Marcela Sulak is the author of the poetry collection,&nbsp;<em>Immigrant&nbsp;</em>and a chapbook. She has translated 3 collections of poetry from the Czech Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (such as it is still called, though the Rebel forces are still conquering cities and headed to Kinshasha....)&nbsp; She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan where she also teaches American literature.&nbsp;</h4>

Marcela Sulak

<h4>Tala&nbsp;Abu Rahmeh graduated from the American University in 2009 with an MFA in Poetry. Her work has been published by several magazines and anthologies, the first of which was &ldquo;25 Under 25&Prime;, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye for Harper Collins. She is currently working as an instructor at Bard College&rsquo;s chapter in Jerusalem.</h4>

Tala Abu Rahmeh

The Gaza Poetry Roundtable: Part III

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Dara Barnat's poetry appears widely in journals in the United States and Israel. She is the author of the chapbook <em>Headwind Migration</em> (2009), as well as translations and essays. Dara holds a PhD from the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University, and her research explores Walt Whitman's influence on Jewish American Poetry. Dara teaches poetry and creative writing. She lives in Tel Aviv and New York City. <a href="http://darabarnat.com/">http://darabarnat.com/</a>
 