Fady Joudah

Photo by Cybele Knowles

Fady Joudah has three poetry collections and four of poetry in translation from the Arabic. He is the recipient of the Yale Series prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

January 2018

The Silence That Remains by Ghassan Zaqtan

By Ghassan Zaqtan

Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2017. 255 pages. In the preface to Ghassan Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, translator Fady Joudah tells the reader: “To have memory and to a...
March 2017

Old Reasons

By Ghassan Zaqtan

Photo: Andreas Manessinger/Flickr Old friend, when we meet, we will meetas two shelves of wings and many harsh years, as one imagination that won’t exchange toasts:there’s no one to stomp the grapes...
November 2015

Petra: The Concealed Rose by Amjad Nasser

By Amjad Nasser

Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. ISBN 9781935635406 Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality p...
July 2013

A Postponed Poem for New York

By Amjad Nasser

I Before what happened happened,I mean, before the towers became a stairway to the dayof reckoning, and the world split into twocamps, water and sand,I used to wish that I’d be among the poetswho woul...