Arabic Poetry Bibliography

Abulhawa, Susan. My Voice Sought the Wind. Charlottesville, Virginia: Just World Books, 2013. PS3601.B86 M9 2013g

Adūnīs, Robyn Creswell, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, and Ivan Seth Eubanks. Songs of Mihyar the Damascene. A New Directions paperback original. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019. PJ7862.A519 A6513 2019

Adūnīs, Mirène Ghossein, Kamal Boullata, and Susan L. Einbinder. If Only the Sea Could Sleep: Love Poems. Marjorie G. Perloff Series of International Poetry. København [Denmark] ; Los Angeles [Calif.] : Saint Paul, Minn: Green Integer ; Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Dist, 2003. PJ7862.A519 A2313 2003g

Alareer, Refaat. 2025. If I must die : Poetry and Prose. [S.l.]: OR BOOKS. [On Order]

Alkatreb, Akram, and Jonas Elbousty. The Screams of War: Selected Poems. Calcutta, India: Seagull Books, 2024. PJ7914.L53 A2 2024g

Antoon, Sinan. Postcards from the Underworld: Poems. The Arab List. London ; New York ; Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2023. PJ7914.N88 P67 2023g

Asfour, John, ed. When the Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, 1945-1987. Dunvegan, Ont: Cormorant Books, 1988. PJ7694.E3 W5 1988g

Assadi, Jamal, ed. The Story of a People: An Anthology of Palestinian Poets within the Green-Lines. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. PJ8190.65.E5 S76 2012

Badawī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá. An anthology of modern Arabic verse: selected with an introduction by M. M. Badawi. London: Published for the trustees of the James Mew Fund by Oxford University Press, 1970. PJ7661 .B28

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd. The Adam of Two Edens: Selected Poems. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2000. PJ7820.A7 A2 2000

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd, Munīr ʻAkash, Carolyn Forché, and Fady Joudah. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. PJ7820.A7 A22 2013g

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd, and Muḥammad Shāhīn. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? London: Hesperus Press Limited, 2014. PJ7820.A7 A2 2014g

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd, Muḥammad Shāhīn, and Ilyās Khūrī. I Don’t Want This Poem to End: Early and Late Poems. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2017. PJ7820.A7 A2 2017

Darwish, Najwan, and Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Nothing More to Lose. New York Review Books Poets. New York: New York Review Books, 2014. PJ7920.A787 A2 2014

Elias, Olivia, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, and Najwān Darwīsh. Chaos, Crossing. First edition. New York, NY: World Poetry Books, 2022. PQ3979.3.E45 C43 2022g

Elmeligi, Wessam, ed. The Poetry of Arab Women: From the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia. Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. EBOOK 

Elmessiri, Abdelwahab M., ed. The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry. 1st ed. Washington, D.C: Three Continents Press, 1982 PJ8190.P3 P3 1982

Foyle, Naomi, ed. A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry. Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2017. PJ8190.6 .B53 2017g

Ghazzāwī, ʻIzzat, ed. Modern Palestinian Poetry in Translation: 35 Poets. 1st. ed. Jerusalem: The Palestinian Writers’ Union, 1997. PJ8190.65.E54 M43 1998g

Handal, Nathalie, ed. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. New York: Interlink Books, 2001. PJ7694.E3 P64 2001

ʻAlī, Ṭāhā Muḥammad, Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. So What: New & Selected Poems (with a Story), 1971-2005. Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. PJ7812.T34 A6 2006

ʻInānī, Muḥammad Muḥammad, and Muḥammad Mutawallī, eds. Angry Voices: An Anthology of the off-Beat New Egyptian Poets. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. PJ8214.5.E5 A54 2003

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed. Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. PJ7694.E3 M64 1987

Joudah, Fady. … … Poems. Place of publication not identified: Milkweed Editions, 2024. EBOOK

———. Tethered to Stars: Poems. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2021. EBOOK 

Kanazi, Remi, ed. Poets for Palestine. New York: Al Jisser Group, 2008. PS508.A67 P64 2008g

Malāʼikah, Nāzik, and ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Luʼluʼah. Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nāzik Al-Malā’ika. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. EBOOK.

Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, ed. Fifteen Iraqi Poets. New Directions Poetry Pamphlet, #12. New York: New Directions Books, 2013. PJ8044.5.E5 F44 2013

———. Tablets: Secrets of the Clay. First edition. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024. PJ7846.I392 T33 2024

———. The War Works Hard. Manchester [England]: Carcanet, 2006. PJ7846.I392 H3713 2006

Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, and Kareem James Abu-Zeid. The Iraqi Nights =: Layālī al-ʻIrāqīyah. New York: New Directions Book, 2014. PJ7846.I392 L3913 2014

Montgomery, James E., ed. Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2022. EBOOK.

Nāṣir, Amjad, Fady Joudah, and Khaled Mattawa. A Map of Signs and Scents: New and Selected Poems, 1979-2014. Evanston, Illinois: Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016. PJ7852.A677 A2 2016

Obank, Margaret, and Samuel Shimon, eds. A Crack in the Wall: New Arab Poetry. Middle Eastern Poetry. London: Saqi Books, 2001. PJ7694.E3 C722 2001g

Qabbānī, Nizār, Nizār Qabbānī, Nizār Qabbānī, Nayef Al-Kalali, and Lisa Kavchak. Republic of Love: Selected Poems in English and Arabic. London ; New York: K. Paul, 2003. PJ7858.A2 A242 2003g.

Qabbānī, Nizār, Nizār Qabbānī, Nizār Qabbānī, Bassam K. Frangieh, and Clementina R. Brown. Arabian Love Poems. Washington, D.C: Three Continents Press, 1993. PJ7858.A2 A24 1993

Qāsim, Samīḥ, and ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Luʼluʼah. All Faces but Mine: The Poetry of Samih al-Qasim. First edition. Middle East Literature in Translation. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015. EBOOK

Colville, Jim. Poems of Wine & Revelry : The Khamriyyat of Abu Nuwas. Oxon, England: Routledge, 2005. EBOOK

Sawaie, Mohammed, ed. The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems. London: Banipal Books, 2022. PJ8190.65.E5 T46 2022

Tuetey, Charles Greville, ed. Classical Arabic Poetry: 162 Poems from Imrulkais to Macarri. London ; Boston: KPI, 1985. PJ7694.E3 C52 1985g

Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf, and Amy Freels. Something about Living. First edition. Akron Series in Poetry. Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press, 2024. PS3620.U363 S66 2024
———.    Kaan and Her Sisters. 1st edition. Minneapolis: Trio House Press. 2023.

Ṭūqān, Fadwá, Fadwá Ṭūqān, Fadwá Ṭūqān, and Ibrahim Dawood. Selected Poems of Fadwa Ṭūqān. 1st ed. Yarkmouk University Publications. Deanship of Research and Graduate Studies. Irbid, Jordan: Yarmouk University, 1994. PJ7864.U69 A23 1994g

Younis, Lana, and Muḥammad Muḥammad ʻInānī, eds. Samples of Modern Arabic Poetry in English Translation. Contemporary Arabic Literature 59. Cairo: GEBO, 1999. PJ7694.E3 S25 1999g

Yūsuf, Saʻdī, Sinan Antoon, and Peter Money. Nostalgia, My Enemy: Poems. Minneapolis, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2012. PJ7874 .U84 A2 2012g

Zaqṭān, Ghassān, and Fady Joudah. Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems. A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. EBOOK

———. The Silence That Remains: Selected Poems, 1982-2003. Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2018. PJ7876.A6565 A2 2018h

Zayyād, Tawfīq, and Aida A. Bamia. We Are Here to Stay. Grewelthorpe, Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2022. PJ7876.A97 A2 2022