Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestinian Poet, and Fady Joudah, Poet and Translator-- Reading

Zaqtan is a major Palestinian poet and leading representative of the avant-garde in Arabic literature. His new collection is Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (2012), translated by Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series competition for his collection, The Earth in the Attic (2008). Zaqtan is also Director General of the Literature and Publishing Dept. of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. Cosponsored by Int'l Poets in Conversation of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Inst.