Palestinian Poet Still Lacking Visa for U.S. Book Tour

Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan, whose collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Yale University Press is releasing this month, has still not received a visa to travel to the United States for a two-week-long book tour, which was supposed to begin yesterday. The poetry of Fady Joudah, Zaqtan’s translator who was to help Zaqtan kick off his tour, appears in the latest issue of TQO.