Fady Joudah | 2025-2026 Readings and Talks

About this episode

Fady Joudah discusses his poetry and recent accolades in a reading and discussion hosted by Carolyn Forché.

On Tuesday, October 21st, the Lannan Center hosted a reading and discussion by Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah, hosted by Carolyn Forché. Fady Joudah is the author of […], a 2024 finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. He has also published six 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; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and ...

People in this episode

Guest: Fady Joudah

Topics covered

• poetry
• Palestinian-American literature
• National Book Award

Keywords

• Jackson Poetry Prize
• poetry collections
• literary discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Books & works: the National Book Award for Poetry, The Earth in the Attic, Alight

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