El Habib Louai is a Moroccan poet, translator, musician, and assistant professor of English at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco. His articles, poems, and Arabic translations of Beat writers appear in many literary magazines, journals, and reviews.
This project grew from a conversation with Kim Stafford during the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters conference, “Words = A Pathway to Peace.” We decided to send a poem for peace around t…