Writer Fady Joudah will present his new publication, Exhibit G, followed by a conversation with poet Zena Agha.
Exhibit G (Out-Spoken Press, 2026) is a collection of poems, essays and photographs that offers a Palestinian representation of the visual evidence and the written account in a time of genocide. A book that depends on the labor of a Palestinian collective.
Fady Joudah writes from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States, a nation leading the Western complicity in the Israeli genocide.
Exhibit G has been longlisted for the National Book Awards 2026 for Poetry.
This event is co-presented with PalFest.
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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 Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from 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 the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Zena Agha is a Palestinian-Iraqi writer and poet. She is the author of Objects from April and May, published with Hajar Press, April 2022. Her PhD examined historical and contemporary practices of counter-mapping in Palestine.
Writer Fady Joudah will present his new publication, Exhibit G, followed by a conversation with poet Zena Agha.
Exhibit G (Out-Spoken Press, 2026) is a collection of poems, essays and photographs that offers a Palestinian representation of the visual evidence and the written account in a time of genocide. A book that depends on the labor of a Palestinian collective.
Fady Joudah writes from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States, a nation leading the Western complicity in the Israeli genocide.
Exhibit G has been longlisted for the National Book Awards 2026 for Poetry.
This event is co-presented with PalFest.
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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 Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from 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 the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Zena Agha is a Palestinian-Iraqi writer and poet. She is the author of Objects from April and May, published with Hajar Press, April 2022. Her PhD examined historical and contemporary practices of counter-mapping in Palestine.