Two poets whose lives link the US & the Middle East

from The Daily Star Online (Lebanese newspaper):
“Expatriate Iraqi poet returns home to find his calling”
A profile of Sinan Antoon, “one of the leading poets of his generation, pushing boundaries of the acceptable,” whose life as a poet was revived when he left the US & returned to the Middle East in 2002.

from The Macon Telegraph:
“GC&SU professor killed in accident in Middle East”
from The New York Daily News:
“Poet & son die in Jordan crash”
Born in New York City to first-generation Iranian immigrants, Susan Atefat-Peckham had lived in the United States, Iran, Switzerland & France, and was travelling with her husband, poet Joel Peckham, on a Fulbright scholarship in Jordan when she was killed in a tourist bus accident this week. She gave up the study of medicine to commit herself to poetry; soon after, her first book, That Kind of Sleep, was published in the National Poetry Series in 2000. She will be missed.