like so much else unsaid in Ireland.
There is distance here—
as if desire hasn't been born yet.
Kathy Kremins
from the book
The Curve of Things /
CavanKerry Press
“He reflects on the role that literary criticism has played in his career as a poet and gives listeners a rare glimpse into his process….”
Literary Hub
“Exhibit G does not merely reflect the sensibility of a single mind, instead enacting a communion with local and diasporic Palestinians living through the genocide.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“I used the third person to create distance from the writer. In this way, I was able to say things that I might have not said if I had used the first person, I voice. Even to myself.”
The Adroit Journal
“Poetry blends into prose poetry and then again into essay in Fady Joudah’s stunning new collection, Exhibit G: Poems Essays and Photographs of Gaza (Milkweed Editions).”
Washington Independent Review of Books
“But how is it possible to make an encounter into a poem without muddling it with ideas, with subjectivity, with narrative?”
The Adroit Journal
“for his bilingual poetry collection The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la tierra es un jardín de monstruos.”
LINK NKY
“The academy cited the author’s ‘bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.’”
The Guardian
“We wanted an identity that could convey the full range of what we do and the vibrancy of poetry: big, bright, and beautiful in itself.”
Poetry Foundation
“E” By Noa Micaela Fields is on the 2026 Poetry Shortlist.
Chicago Review of Books
“Gaza emerges as a language of Palestine unto itself—a new beginning, the final and only utterance of the single ‘G.’”
Literary Hub
“To be a daughter is to know a particular kind of duty….a labor of love, a practice of attention….”
Literary Hub
“She was too busy scrubbing the grime from their next set of rented rooms to mourn the loss of the sunlit kitchen where her babies had been little.”
Literary Hub
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- October 13, 2026
Sony Ton-Aime
Tomorrow is already gone and yesterday,
well, yesterday will wear its own green coat.
- October 12, 2026
Rick Barot
Who are they for whom the grass is a bed? Who are those others,
elsewhere, sleeping in the open back of a truck
- October 11, 2026
Alex Keramidas
The kind ones admire the water
The wise ones admire the mountains
I am mostly interested in this city.
San Francisco playing itself.
- October 10, 2026
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
before abandoning my fatherland/ i must first dignify this
departure with marble and granite/
bribe someone to chip Here lies a beloved beneath the carving of an
angel
- October 9, 2026
Keith Jarrett
at the cross, she catch wise,
like the cedars of Lebanon
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