A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English wit…

- Fady Joudah

What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering…

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Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But…

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I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a P…

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We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall b…

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Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why…

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We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author w…

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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

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Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

- Fady Joudah