Fasting on Tunis by Leila Chatti - Poem for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Isaiah 58:1-12
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Fasting on Tunis
Leila Chatti
SNIPPET:
…
The ocean eats and eats
at the sand and still hungers.
…
Leila Chatti (b. 1990) is a Tunisian-American poet and author, and teaches at Pacific University. She has lived in the United States, Tunisia, and Southern France. Often exploring themes of trauma and resilience, her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, and other journals and anthologies.