Ep 196: It’s Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres
– Dispatches from the Land of Erasure by Philip Metres
– Cameron’s new Substack, Minor Tiresias
– What the Hell Is the Presidency for? by Jonathan Farmer
– The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry, Ed. Rita Dove
– Heaven Looks Like Us (anthology of Palestinian Poetry)
– Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s by Philip Brian Harper
– Phil’s seelction of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry:
“End of a Talk with a Jailer” by Samih al-Qasim
https://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/samih-al-qasims-end-of-talk-with.html
“We Travel Like Other People” by Mahmoud Darwish
“State of Siege” by Mahmoud Darwish
http://www.alkalimah.net/Articles/Read/8027
“Against” by Rashid Hussein:
https://adimagazine.com/articles/three-poems-by-rashid-hussain/
“We” by Ghayath Almadoun
https://themarkaz.org/we-and-4978-and-one-nights-by-ghayath-almadhoun/
“Write My Name” by Zeina Azzam
“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi
[…] by Fady Joudah
“Jerusalem” by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54296/jerusalem-56d2347ab7a20
“All Things Not Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://mayazmi.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/all-things-not-considered-naomi-shihab-nye-women-in-poetry/
“Variations on a Last Chance” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
https://themarkaz.org/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-two-poems/
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