In “Hunger the Grasshopper and Famine the Locust,” poet Fady Joudah meditates on food as a weapon of settler colonial domination in Palestine: “Then starvation harvested miracles for us, / and solidarity spoke / in a bubble.”

In “The Stench” and “[…],” poet and translator Fady Joudah responds to recent atrocities committed by Israel during its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people –– a genocide not only of human beings, but, as Joudah reminds us, of all forms of life in Palestine.

Poet and translator Fady Joudah’s “Habibi Yamma” explores Palestinian motherhood and childhood, grief and survival, from the Nakba to the present genocide in Gaza. Image credit: Malak Mattar, “when peace dies, embrace it. it will live again” (acrylic on canvas, 2021).