Ghassan Zaqtan

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Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan is a novelist, editor, and the author of ten collections of poetry. His newest collection, The Silence That Remains, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. He is a two-time finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2014, 2016) and shared the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize with Fady Joudah. He lives in Ramallah.

Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014–2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan

Ghassan Zaqtan
London. Seagull Books. 2023. 96 pages. Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah describes Ghassan Zaqtan as “a lyricist with strong narrative impulse.” Such is certainly t…
The Silence That Remains by Ghassan Zaqtan

Ghassan Zaqtan
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2017. 255 pages. In the preface to Ghassan Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, translator Fady Joudah tells the reader: “To have memory and to a…
Old Reasons

March 2017
Ghassan Zaqtan
Photo: Andreas Manessinger/Flickr Old friend, when we meet, we will meetas two shelves of wings and many harsh years, as one imagination that won’t exchange toasts:there’s no one to stomp the grapes…
We Were Born in the Houses of Storytellers

March 2016
Ghassan Zaqtan
Ghassan Zaqtan (left) and Mahmoud Darwish in a 2007 photo taken by Palestinian poet Bashir Shalash. After presenting a sweeping landscape of Arabic poetry since pre-Islamic days…