Burning or Being Burned?

I didn’t smell the smoke until I stepped onto my patio two mornings after the fires had started. I’d noticed an unusual haze the previous evening, driving home from work in Gijón, but even so, the smell of smoke didn’t make me think forest fire. Forest fires are a summer problem, and though we’d had […] The post Burning or Being Burned? appeared first on The American Scholar. Amanda Holmes reads Muhammed Ali Chamseddine’s poem “A Hand Not Ready for Birds,” translated from the Arabic by Mansour Ajami. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. The post “A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine appeared first on The American Scholar.