Zeina Hashem Beck

Tim Seibles

Zeina Hashem Beck

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third full-length poetry collection, O, was published by Penguin Books in July 2022. Her collection Louder than Hearts won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. She’s also the author of 3arabi Song, winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook prize, There Was and How Much There Was, a 2016 Laureate’s Choice selected by Carol Ann Duffy, and To Live in Autumn, winner of the 2013 Backwaters Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New York Times, Poetry, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Zeina invented The Duet, a bilingual poetic form where English and Arabic exist separately and in relationship to each other. She’s the co-creator and co-host, with poet Farah Chamma, of Maqsouda, a podcast about Arabic poetry. After a lifetime in Lebanon and a decade in Dubai, Zeina recently moved to California.

Tim Seibles

Tim Seibles, former Poet Laureate of Virginia, is the author of several books of poetry including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, and Buffalo Head Solos. Fast Animal, his fifth, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. One Turn Around The Sun, was published in 2017. His new and selected collection, Voodoo Libretto was released in January 2022.