Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Mimesis My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spider That had nested Between her bicycle handles For two weeks She waited Until it left of its… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
