Godspeed Institute - Egyptian-American Poet Yahia Lababidi - 03/24/14

Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American thinker and poet, nominated for a Pushcart Prize by World Literature Today magazine.

 Lababidi's first book Signposts to Elsewhere, was selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by British publication The Independent. Signposts was followed by well-received collections of literary and cultural essays, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing; a book of poetry titled Fever Dreams; and a series of literary dialogues with Alex Stein, The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi.

 Lababidi was chosen as a Juror for the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

 His latest is a remarkable new collection of short poems, Barely There, which he discusses with Caer in in this hour.

Topics include: How Lababidi left Egypt to come to the U.S.; when he began to write poetry; Rumi; poetry and spirituality; the relevance of poetry today and across cultures; love; surrender; the "well-ventilated soul"; explorations of his poems Embracing, We Let Go; Exchanges; Misread Signs; Unentitled; Stamina; Liberation; Mysticism; Egypt; and much more.

 For more information visit  Yahia Lababidi.