Listen to translator Robyn Creswell and poet Iman Mersal read “A Grave I’m About to Dig” (مقبرة سأحفرها) from their 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize collection, The Threshold (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
The winner will be announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings to be held at Koerner Hall in Toronto on Wednesday, June 7, and will be awarded $130,000. The other shortlisted finalists will each receive $10,000. Tickets are on sale here.
