Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah has published four collections of poems, The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Awards
Yale Younger Poets
Guggenheim Fellowship
PEN Translation Award
Banipal/Times Literary Supplement Prize
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Milkweed Staff – 01/07/2021
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Concord, MA — 04/11/2021
Join acclaimed poets Fady Joudah, author of Tethered to Stars , and Andrea Cohen reading from recent work and talking...