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Michael Beard

Contributor

Michael Beard

Michael Beard teaches in the English department at the University of North Dakota. He and Adnan Haydar collaborate frequently on translations from Arabic. Their translation of Adonis’s Mihyar of Damascus, His Poems, won the Modern Language Association’s 2009 Lois Roth Award. He coedits the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and the Middle East Literature in Translation series for Syracuse University Press.

Articles by Michael Beard

Walt Whitman and Me: Notes on a Poetic Education
By Abdel-Moneim Ramadan
I was possessed by memory and forgetfulness and by Arabic poetry.
Translated from Arabic by Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar
Funeral for Walt Whitman
By Abdel-Moneim Ramadan
So finally, atop the fender of a tank / lounges Walt Whitman.
Translated from Arabic by Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar