"Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions.""The Guardian"

Emerging in the era of tweets and text messages, poet Fady Joudah has invented a new poetic form: textu. The "u" in textu echoes the one in haiku, and also emphasizes the intimate you. A textu poem has a single rule: be exactly 160 characters long. As theme, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways.

Textu

"Your spine a river into the forest
can't tell the neurons for the trees"

"I light & light
you up...