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SUMMARY:Three acclaimed Seattle-area writers including Lena Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with three acclaimed Seattle-area writers\, all published by Red Hen Press!\nKristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction\, a Paris Review staff pick called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post\, a “brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. Her essays\, investigations and reviews appear in the Washington Post\, Literary Hub\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere\, as well as the anthologies Latina Outsiders\, Pie & Whiskey and Alone Together: Love\, Grief\, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19. She was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall\,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. From 2018 to 2020\, Kristen served as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House.\n\nAmber Flame is a writer\, composer and performer whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook\, The Watering Hole\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. Her first collection\, Ordinary Cruelty\, was published in 2017 by Write Bloody Press\, and her second collection is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. Her first book of poems\, Water & Salt won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Awards. Her chapbook\, Arab in Newsland\, won the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize\, and her most recent chapbook\, Letters from the Interior\, was published by Diode editions. Her poems and essays have received the Robert Watson Literary Prize and been published in Adroit journal\, Jubilat\, Kenyon Review Online\, the New England Review\, the Rumpus\, Southern Humanities Review\, and World Literature Today\, among others.\nThird Place Books Events Code of Conduct: Third Place Books is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of event attendees and guest authors\, during both online and in-store events. By registering for this event\, you are agreeing to refrain from engaging in inappropriate behavior and harassment of any kind throughout the course of this event (i.e. racial slurs\, profanity\, hate speech\, spam comments\, etc.). Please note that any participants who engage in inappropriate behavior or harassment of any kind will be immediately ejected from this event.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/three-acclaimed-seattle-area-writers-including-lena-tuffaha/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Poetry: Gabrielle Bates\, Julia Guez\, Luther Hughes\, Dujie Tahat\, and Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of all things verse with visiting poets Julia Guez and Tess Taylor\, along with local favorites and cohosts of the Poet Salon Podcast Gabrielle Bates\, Luther Hughes\, and Dujie Tahat. This event will be held on Zoom and broadcast simultaneously through Facebook Live. To RSVP to the Zoom call\, click “Tickets” found at this link: https://hugohouse.org/events/spotlight-poetry-julia-guez-tess-taylor-gabrielle-bates-and-keetje-kuipers/ Link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/hugo-house/spotlight-poetry-gabrielle-bates-julia-guez-luther-hughes-dujie-tahat-and-tess-t/323224289001397/ ———— ABOUT THE READERS JULIA GUEZ’s poetry\, essays\, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry\, the Guardian\, PEN Poetry Series\, the Kenyon Review\, BOMB\, and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade\, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a senior managing director of program implementation there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. — TESS TAYLOR is the author of five collections of poetry. Her chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, and the San Francisco Chronicle called her first book\, The Forage House\, “stunning.” Her second book\, Work & Days\, was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Taylor’s work has appeared in the Atlantic\, the Kenyon Review\, Poetry\, Tin House\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and elsewhere. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures\, at the Museum of Modern Art\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press. She teaches at University of California\, Davis. — GABRIELLE BATES is a poet from Birmingham\, Alabama\, currently living in Seattle\, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems and poetry comics have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, and the Best of the Net anthology\, among other venues. — LUTHER HUGHES\, born and raised Seattle\, is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions\, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2018). Founder of Shade Literary Arts and executive editor for the The Offing\, he cohosts The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. His work has been published in Poetry\, Paris Review\, The Rumpus\, New England Review\, and others. He is the recipient of the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. Luther received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. — DUJIE TAHAT is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington State. They are the author of two chapbooks: Here I Am O My God\, selected by Fady Joudah for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, and Salat\, selected by Cornelius Eady as winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Award. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry\, Poetry NW\, ZYZZVA\, Best New Poets\, Asian American Literary Review and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from Hugo House\, Jack Straw Writing Program\, and the Poetry Foundation\, as well as a work-study scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. They serve as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohost The Poet Salon podcast.\nmore details»  copy to my calendar
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/spotlight-poetry-gabrielle-bates-julia-guez-luther-hughes-dujie-tahat-and-tess-taylor/
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SUMMARY:Graywolf Literary Salon: Conversations from Home\, feat. Khaled Mattawa
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an evening of intimate conversations about home\, language\, and imagining a better world \nStep inside the world of books and get a view straight from the desks of our authors and editors. Join Graywolf Press and four of our outstanding writers as they welcome us into their homes for an evening of conversations about place and imagination during this unprecedented moment in history. \nThe Graywolf Literary Salon will feature Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem)\, Roy G. Guzmán (Catrachos)\, Khaled Mattawa (Fugitive Atlas)\, and Kevin Young  (Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Plagiarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts & Fake News). \nAdmission is free\, but we encourage you to give a donation of $25 or more to support Graywolf Press. All proceeds benefit Graywolf’s New Chapter Campaign\, a $3 million initiative to strengthen our publishing program through investments in editorial\, marketing\, audience development\, engagement\, and infrastructure. \nRegister here: https://graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/2020salon/index.html \n7:30pm CT\nAbout the Authors \nNATALIE DIAZ is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem\, a finalist for the Forward Prize\, and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship\, and a United States Artists Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. \nROY G. GUZMÁN is the author of Catrachos\, and has received a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Raised in Miami\, they live in Minneapolis. \nKHALED MATTAWA is the author of five collections of poetry and is the translator of eleven books of contemporary Arabic poetry. He has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation\, as well as a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship. His forthcoming collection\, Fugitive Atlas\, will be published in October 2020. (and he’s Libyan) \nKEVIN YOUNG is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose\, including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize\, and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Plagiarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts & Fake News\, longlisted for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song\, appearing September. Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor of the New Yorker\, he was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/graywolf-literary-salon-conversations-from-home-feat-natalie-diaz-roy-g-guzman-khaled-mattawa-kevin-young/
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SUMMARY:My Name is the People of Palestine: cultural event
DESCRIPTION:“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nJoin us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th\, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together. \nMusic director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists: \n\nAmal Murkus\nBoutros Rouhana\nCharbel Rouhana\nShadia Mansour\nReem Talhami\nGeorge Bisharat\n\nFeatured Poets: \n\nMourid Barghouti\nTamim Barghouti\nAnis Chouehene\n\nTwo new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert. \nThis event will be streamed live on Facebook\, Zoom\, and Youtube\, reserve your front-row seat and please share. \nTranslation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org. \nThis concert is sponsored by: Zawaya\, Middle East Children’s Alliance\, and Palestinian Youth Movement.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/my-name-is-the-people-of-palestine-cultural-event/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Music,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Dodge Poetry Festival: The Compassion of Hard Truths: Zeina Hashem Beck and Others
DESCRIPTION:The Compassion of Hard Truths: Zeina Hashem Beck\, Martín Espada\, Paisley Rekdal\, Seema Reza. Moderated by Martin J. Farawell \nZeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet with a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. She won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize for her second full-length collection\, Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing 2017)\, about which Naomi Shihab Nye wrote\, “Everything Arabic we treasure comes alive in these poems. Readers will feel restored to so many homes\, revived\, amazed. Zeina Hashem Beck writes with a brilliant\, absolutely essential voice.” \nhttp://www.zeinahashembeck.com/
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/dodge-poetry-festival-the-compassion-of-hard-truths-zeina-hashem-beck-and-others/
LOCATION:WA
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