Arts Apr 24 Conversation: Adina Hoffman, Author of the New Biography of Poet Taha Muhammad Ali Several years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to travel through Israel and the West Bank to talk to Palestinian and Israeli poets. Among the remarkable writers I met there and the one who made the greatest impression on viewers… By Arts Desk
Arts Oct 22 Watch Seattle Poetry Publisher Finds Method to Adapt to Changing Cultural Times Copper Canyon Press, a Seattle area poetry publishing firm, started out as a small enterprise where employees bound books by hand and sold them out of their cars. Today, government and foundation grants allow the press to bring lesser-known poetry…
Arts Mar 22 Watch For Palestinians, Identity Is Regained Through Poetry Poets in the Arab world have historically been important cultural figures, and this tradition continues among Palestinians. In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry's role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets.
Mar 22 Taha Muhummad Ali Reads 2 Poems from His Book ‘So What’ Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they have lived since. He has published several… Continue reading