Ep 169: Thunder & Rain

 

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Leila’s recommendations:

- "Dedication" by Fady Joudah, who is also American but with a personal connection to Gaza, many of whose family members have indeed been killed there: 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading: Fady Joudah in Conversation With Pádraig Ó Tuama (recorded here beginning at minute 50)

- "Not Just Passing" and "I Grant You Refuge" by Heba Abu Nada, who was killed in Gaza: Not Just Passing: In Honor of Heba Abu Nada - MiznaI Grant You Refuge • Protean Magazine

- "My mother once said" and "The land fights, too" by Nour Khalil Abu Shammala, writing from Gaza: My mother once said | The Electronic IntifadaThe land fights, too | The Electronic Intifada

- "A Request," "Right or Left," and others contained in this interview with Mosab Abu Toha, who is from Gaza and some of whose experience is also recounted here: “Forest of Noise”: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on New Book, Relatives Killed in Gaza & More | Democracy Now!

- "It Always Starts with Words" and "Four Poems" by Olivia Elias, born in Palestine and writing from the diaspora: It Always Starts with Words - MiznaFOUR POEMS by Olivia Elias, trans. Jérémy Victor Robert – FOUR WAY REVIEW

- "Gazan Despair" and "When a Missile Lands" by Yahya Ashour, who is outside of Gaza and unable to return: Gazan Despair - MiznaNew Poetry in Translation: Yahya Ashour’s ‘When a Missile Lands’ – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

- Poems from "Ash and Air" by Nadine Murtaja, writing from Gaza: Ash and Air: a Poetry Folio from Gaza - Mizna


Padraig O Tuama

Julie Steiner

Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024

Ceasefire Haiku by Faisal Mohyuddin

The Tea and Sage Poem by Fady Joudah

Mimesis by Fady Joudah

– Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

Brian Cox’s rendition of If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer

– If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer

– Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice

Frequently mentioned names:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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