Poetry Mar 22 Ghassan Zaqtan Reads ‘Four Sisters from Zacharia’ in Arabic Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of "Bayader" literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is editor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal…
Poetry Mar 22 Samih al-Qasim Reads ‘End of the Talk with a Jailer’ Samih al-Qasim was born in 1939 in Zarqa, Jordan. He grew up in the village of Rama in northern Palestine and was a leading figure of the "resistance poets" of the 1950s. He has written more than thirty books of…
Poetry Mar 21 Agi Mishol Reads ‘Woman Martyr’ and ‘Geese’ Poet Agi Mishol is the winner of several awards, including the Tel Aviv Foundation Award (1991), the Prime Minister`s Prize (1994) and the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize (2002). She has published 12 volumes of poetry in Hebrew and has two…
Poetry Mar 21 Eliaz Cohen Reads ‘Poems of the Mountain Village’ in English and Hebrew Eliaz Cohen is a poet and social worker who grew up in the northern West Bank. He is a founder and editor of the poetry journal "Mashiv Haru'ach" and is the author of four books of poetry. He lives with…
Poetry Feb 14 Mary Jo Salter Reads ‘Aubade for Brad’ and Other Poems Mary Jo Salter is the author of several books of poetry, including "Open Shutters," a 2003 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has written a children's book, "The Moon Comes Home" (1989) and a play, "Falling Bodies,"…