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As a poet of Palestinian background, I am devastated by the news: 30,000 Palestinians murdered, 2/3 of whom are women and children, 85% of the population displaced. 70% of homes destroyed.

Here are poems for Gaza, from my forthcoming book, Palestine Wail:

I had the good fortune to participate in a Political/Philosophic Discussion of the Student Movement and the Crisis in Gaza

Here's a short reading of a few poems from my forthcoming book, PALESTINE WAIL:

Yahia Lababidi | The PEN Ten Interview
By: Kori Davis | August 15, 2024

Distance isn’t afforded to the reader in Yahia Lababidi’s Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, 2024). These poems are an unflinching look at the pain and wounds afflicting the Palestinian diaspora caused by the Israel-Hamas war and the occupation of Palestine by the Israeli government. These poems aren’t meant to condemn but examine a broken time where we are indifferent to one another’s pain and fail to see how that pain affects us as a collective. It is only then that these poems begin to dress the wounds.

In conversation with PEN America Membership’s Kori Davis for this week’s PEN Ten, Yahia Lababidi shares his personal insights as an Arab-American of Palestinian background, the censorship he faced for using the term ‘genocide� in Palestine Wail, and describes his philosophy on the interconnectedness of the human race.