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“Thirteen Maqams” from Fady Joudah (a Palestinian lament)
I’m linking to this extraordinary rage-meditation before it gets taken down for whatever “national security” reason: A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation: Thirteen Maqams for an Afterlife, by the magnificent Palestinian-American poet/translator and physician Fady Joudah. Thanks to LitHub for making it available, and thanks to Louise Glück, wherever she’s traveling these days, for choosing Joudah’s first book for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007. For anyone interested in the title of Joudah’s lament, here’s a good place to start exploring maqam.Read More
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Friday Notebook 03.02.12
Had I posted a Friday Notebook entry last week it would have comprised the first half of the quotations below. They are from Lawrence Durrell’s Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982), which I finished reading yesterday—in between various writing-for-hire and teaching-related activities. Constance is the third in Durrell’s final novel series, his “quincunx” of five novels. Herewith, a few extracts: Lawrence Durrell He wore his puritan life like a dead crow round his neck. * If foreigners did not exist the English would not know who to patronize.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
