arabic

Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon reads from his collection Baghdad Blues and uncollected translations of many more poems. He concludes the reading with a performance of a poem in Arabic.

Taha Muhammad Ali reads primarily from his book So What (2006) in the original Arabic, with Peter Cole reading each poem's translation in English.

Poet and physician Fady Joudah reads uncollected and new poems; poems from Alight (2013) and Textu (2014); and translations from the works of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, Hussein Barghouthi, and Amjad Nasser.

Poet and translator Marilyn Hacker reads from her collections Names (2010) and A Stranger's Mirror (2015). She also reads from her translations from the French of works by poets Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Claire Malroux.

A playlist of tracks by poets who perform in two or more languages. 

Zeina Hashem Beck reads from her first three books—To Live in Autumn (2014), Louder Than Hearts (2017), and O (2022)—as well as from her forthcoming This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (2027). Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, feature throughout the work Hashem Beck shares. She also reads poems in forms including  a triptych, a bilingual "duet" mixing English and Arabic, and "flipping" sonnets, which are read both top to bottom and bottom to top.