Fady Joudah

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

Articles

“To Be in a Time of War”: An Homage to Etel Adnan (1925-2021)
Fady Joudah adapts a chapter of “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country,” in homage to its author, Etel Adnan, who passed away on November 14....
Nov 15, 2021
“To Be in a Time of War”: An Homage to Etel Adnan (1925-2021)
Fady Joudah adapts a chapter of “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country,” in homage to its author, Etel Adnan, who passed away on November 14....
Fady JoudahNov 15, 2021
My Palestinian Poem that “The New Yorker” Wouldn’t Publish
In May 2021 the poems I wrote came to me, and I received them — in Bergsonian durée, between ruptured continuity and continuous rupture, similar to the replication of two DNA strands running in opposite directions. I was reproducing life.”   ...
Jun 7, 2021
Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence
Fady Joudah translates three timely, timeless poems by Maya Abu-Alhayyat, and Deema Shehabi, Lena Tuffaha, and Hala Alyan recite them....
May 14, 2021
- Poetry
Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence
It’s not difficult to hear “verdict” in the “sentence” above, just as it is hard to ignore the breathlessness of resistance in it. The following poems are by Maya Abu-Alhayyat, a Palestinian poet, novelist, editor, and author of children’s ...
May 12, 2021
Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence
It’s not difficult to hear “verdict” in the “sentence” above, just as it is hard to ignore the breathlessness of resistance in it. The following poems are by Maya Abu-Alhayyat, a Palestinian poet, novelist, editor, and author of children’s ...
Maya Abu-Alhayyat, Fady JoudahMay 12, 2021
Who Are You Without People?
In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in its carousel of loneliness, longing, and confusion that touches us all in equal and unequal measure, my friend, the writer Golan Haji, sent me this poem as solace. “People,” by the Syrian ...
Apr 12, 2021
- Poetry
Corona Radiata: A New Poem
A new poem by Fady Joudah...
Mar 23, 2020
- LARB Quarterly
The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life....
Apr 8, 2019
- Poetry
- Translation
The Silence That Remains: On Translating the Poems of Ghassan Zaqtan
Fady Joudah reflects on his translations of the Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan....
Aug 15, 2017
- Poetry
- Translation
At the Borders of Our Tongue
PHILIP METRES is the author and translator of a number of books, including Sand Opera (Alice James 2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (forthcoming 2015), Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Poetic Texts of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly ...
Feb 23, 2015
- Poetry
For National Poetry Month: "Days of Valentine," "Forgiveness," "Dark Notes I," "Dark Notes II"
DAYS OF VALENTINE In their faraway land in the year of their deathor on the month of their maimingthey were children The war there hadn’t ended but mass killing massgraves had stopped and the war there is a here What’...
Apr 24, 2014