In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I’ve long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I’ve ...

The literature of war

PDF copy “Memory’s Broken Time Machine” A Review of Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. by Dunya Mikhail.  Reviewed by Matthew Kaul. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. by Dunya Mikhail. Translated by Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail. Paperback: ...

First Iraqi woman poet translated into English

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The Guardian, Poets for peace PDF copy

Carcanet review

John Bradley PDF copy Why War Poetry “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” —George Orwell In his revealing essay “Why I Write,” Orwell lists the four main factors motivating writers: ...

Griffin’s Citation, 2006

Dunya Mikhail’s war against war