<div><p>&quot;Joudah's poetry thrives on dramatic shifts in perspective, on continually challenging received notions.&quot;<i>The Guardian</i></p><p>Emerging in the era of tweets and text messages, poet Fady Joudah has invented a new poetic form: textu. The &quot;u&quot; 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.</p><p><b>Textu</b></p><p><i>Your spine a river into the forest<br>can't tell the neurons for the trees</i></p><p><i>I light &amp; light<br>you up with sound profile</i></p><p><i>threading the image habit<br>of pleasure</i></p><p><b>Conscience</b></p><p><i>When we learn how an infant in the womb<br>Sleeps precisely in a parent's pose</i></p><p><i>say with fist closed<br>pillowing the temple</i></p><p><i>What will become<br>of the poem</i></p><p><b>Fady Joudah</b> is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. His first book,<i>The Earth in the Attic</i>, won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. He lives near Houston, Texas.</p><br></div>