Nathalie Handal Recieves National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowship 2025

 French-American poet, playwright, translator, and editor Nathalie Handal is originally of a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in Europe, Latin America, the Arab world, and the United States. 

Poetry Foundation

a poem   https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathalie-handal

Others Are Us

By Nathalie Handal

 

He said I was different because I was dark. She said I was different because 
I wore a scarf. He said I was different because I had an accent. She said I was different because I couldn’t read. He said I was different because I stuttered. She said I was different because I couldn’t hear or speak. He said I was different 
because I should be a girl. She said I was different because I should be a boy. We are all different so doesn’t that mean we are the same? I mean it’s like heartbeats, we all share the same beats per minute but not exactly.

 

Source: Poetry (March 2021)

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academy of american poets

 poets.org https://poets.org/poet/nathalie-handal

Nathalie Handal is the author of several books of poetry, including Life in a Country Album (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) and The Republics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), which received a 2016 Arab American Book Award

About Nathalie Handal