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SUMMARY:The Water We Carry: Struggle\, Daring\, Dignity and Joy (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:International Women’s Month Poetry & Music with Claudia Castro Luna\, Hilary Field\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez\, Deema Shehabi. \nFive women – four poets and a classical guitarist come together to celebrate women’s poems and stories of struggle and joy. This virtual group reading and performance brings together distinct and distinguished poets reflecting an array of international backgrounds along with music\, all in acknowledgement of this being International Women’s Month. \nGoing alphabetically\, this should all include: Claudia Castro Luna is a Seattle/Duwamish Lands-based poet who is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow\, a recent Washington State Poet and Seattle’s first Civic Poet. Her originally being from El Salvador\, ‘living in English and Spanish\,’ informs her work\, including the poetry collections This City\, Killing Marías\, and One River\, A Thousand Voices\, and a powerful new collection\, Cipota Under the Moon\, coming in April from Tia Chucha. Her prose is also in the anthology\, There’s A Revolution Outside\, My Love. \nHilary Field is an internationally known performing and recording artist who has garnered widespread praise for her work with classical guitar. Her debut album\, Music of Spain and Latin America\, won Classical Album of the Year\, awarded by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors. She has performed in festivals throughout the Americas and has taught at both Seattle Pacific University and Pacific Lutheran University. \n**Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a Seattle-area-based poet\, essayist\, and translator who has read and been part of group readings at Elliott Bay numerous times in the past – including readings from the Arabic. Her first full collection of poems\, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press)\, won the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is also author of the chapbooks\, Arab in Newsland\, and Letters from the Interior. She has also received an Artist Trust fellowship and the 2019 Robert Watson Literary Prize\, among other honors. \nPortland poet\, playwright\, producer\, and educator Cindy Williams Gutiérrez is the author\, most recently\, of Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women (WIllow)\, as well as the earlier poetry collection\, the small claim of bones. She has received numerous awards and honors\, and is cofounder of Los Porteños\, Portland Latinx writers’ collective\, and the Confluence Poets in the Methow Valley. Her newest stage work\, IN THE NAME OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN\, a choreopoem\, opens at CoHo on March 25. \n**Kuwait-born poet\, teacher\, editor\, and activist Deema Shehabi\, presently living in California\, is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon (Press 53)\, and co-author with Marilyn Hacker of Diasp/renga: A Collaboration in Alternating Renga. She is also vice-president of the vital writers group\, RAWI – Radius of Arab-American Writers. \nThis should be special: please join us!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-water-we-carry-struggle-daring-dignity-and-joy-virtual/
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SUMMARY:Naomi Shihab Nye Online Workshop: I’m Packed! From Oman to Michigan
DESCRIPTION:One Tuesday: March 22 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST ONLINE\n\n\n\n\nPrice:\n\n$30 Per Household\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Workshop: \nWhat is Home? To some it might look like a house with a metal roof. Some might see a kitchen with food cooking\, while others might think about a place where they used to live. Whatever the answer – home is essential to the many ways we see ourselves. In this writing workshop\, grandparents and grandchildren\, families of all sorts\, friends and even just you can get together and write about what home means to you. Naomi’s new book The Turtle of Michigan (sequel to Turtle of Oman) will guide the writing prompts\, including the opportunity to share if you choose. \nThe book is included with the workshop \nAbout the Book: \nAward-winning author Naomi Shihab Nye’s highly anticipated sequel to The Turtle of Oman explores immigration\, family\, and what it means to feel at home. Carrying a suitcase and memories of Oman\, Aref experiences the excitement and nervousness that accompanies moving to a new home. The Turtle of Michigan is a great choice for reading aloud and a must-have for younger middle grade readers. \nOne Tuesday: March 22 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST ONLINE \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author: \nNaomi Shihab Nye is the current U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate\, anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti’s Secrets\, a picture book\, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world\, including in Muscat\, Oman. She lives in San Antonio\, Texas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nREFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/naomi-shihab-nye-online-workshop-im-packed-from-oman-to-michigan/
LOCATION:WA
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