In My Spare Time
by Fadhil al-Azzawi Translated by Khaled Mattawa During my long, boring hours of spare time I sit to play with …
Tag Archives: Poetry
Nazim Hikmet
26 September 1945 They’ve taken us prisoner, they’ve locked us up : me inside the walls, you outside. But that’s …
A Rite of Confession: A Poem
One of the great pleasures of reading, but even more, of listening to poetry, or music, especially opera, is the …
Poems from Guantanamo
IS IT TRUE? By Osama Abu Kabir Is it true that the grass grows again after rain? Is it true …
The Six Day War, Some Years Later
The famous “Six Day War” of the Middle East –Israel against its antagoneighbors– has come to its 40th anniversary. The …
Garcia Lorca, Birthday Regards
Federico Garcia Lorca, high in the pantheon of the worlds poets, was born on this day, June 5, in 1898. …
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
by Nazim Hikmet Things I Didn’t Know I Loved it’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the …
Other Wars
Following the news of soldiers at Walter Reed Army hospital, and today more scandal at more hospitals, brought to mind …
Into the Caravan
By Will Kirkland, 1980 Passing them –our car, their cart– it seemed as if the hind legs of the horse …
Revenge: A Poem
By Taha Muhammad Ali Revenge At times … I wish I could meet in a duel the man who killed …
March Against the War
January 27th is promising to be a big day in D.C. Here is a contingent I would join. Dear Friends: …
Taha Muhammad Ali: A Poem
A friend of mine, John Huyler, has made it a practice over the years to read a poem every night …