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FEATURED WRITER JAYSON IWEN

INTERVIEW WITH JAYSON IWEN

INTRODUCTION TO THE ZAJAL

ZAJALS

LETTER

DARK A HOLE DEEPER THAN HISTORY

 

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Jayson Iwen now lives about 180 miles south of the ancient city of Antioch, in Lebanon, where he teaches at the American University of Beirut, and advises the student cultural journal Anima. He is reporter for the Emergency Almanac, as well as the Hare Razor for the Beirut Tarboush Hash House Harriers. You can find other poems of his in recent issues of Fence, Clackamas Literary Review, Third Coast, and Reed Magazine, and he has translations of contemporary Arabic poetry appearing soon in The Marlboro Review and The Cream City Review. Jayson is currently reading Willa Cather, The Education of Henry Adams, and Michael Schmidt's Lives of the Poets.