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<p>Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: <em>The Earth in the Attic</em>; <em>Alight</em>; <em>Textu</em>, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; <em>Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance</em>; and, most recently, <em>Tethered to Stars</em>. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.</p>