Letter to a Young Poet by Marwa Helal
Introduction to the Arab Heritage Poetry Special Feature
by Poetry Editor Zein Sa’dedin
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I
Fady Joudah ‘Return Is Only to the Stranger’
Jess Rizkallah ‘can you be arab without following every trail of smoke’
Edmund Berrigan ‘Minor Cosmologies’ & ’13 – 16′
Tom Druker ‘Reconstruction Monument’
Helena Fornells Nadal on Vahni Capildeo’s Venus as a Bear
Paul Stephenson ‘Moving the Hens’
II
‘Do Not Rush’ Omar Sakr
on Robin Robertson’s The Long Take Anna Tipton
‘Yellowthroat (I)’ & ‘Yellowthroat (II)’ Matt Rader
‘Regional Managers’ Ryan Barrett
‘Beside the Conservatory of Flowers’ Jake Darin
III
Zein Sa’dedin on Peter Twal’s Our Earliest Tattoos
Luke Kennard ‘Henry’ & ‘Crow Baby’
Aysar Ghassan ‘Meniscus’ & ‘Refractions’
Daniel Felsenthal ‘I Stopped Being Friends with Jimmy Santini’
Mary Anne Clark ‘The saint takes the monster to church & the monster catches a cold’
Nadine Aisha Jassat ‘My Past Travels Cross Country’
Jessica Starr ‘Father Carrying Box of Electronics’
IV
‘DO NOT ENTER’ & ‘HERE’ Kathrine Sowerby
& Tessa Berring
‘First Dream’ & ‘Goliath Theory’ Josh Bettinger
‘The Sound’ Jessica Abughattas
on Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina Varun Nayar
‘Because’ Dean Atta
on Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Jay G. Ying
‘How hope became green’ Ghayath Almadhoun
Translated by Catherine Cobham
‘At the Gates, Jibril Asks Me Where I Come From’ Hazem Fahmy
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Marjorie Lotfi Gill ‘Gather In’
Alex Amey ‘The Turtle’
George Abraham ‘against perturbation’
Philip Metres ‘The Particulars of Which’
Annie Freud ‘Sydney on the Street of Knives’ and ‘Lines Composed on a Carved Pew-End’
Zeina Hashem Beck ‘Morning Prayer’
ISSN 2398-9300