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SUMMARY:Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Poet and friend of the store Lena Khalaf Tuffaha returns for the launch of her latest collection\, Kaan and Her Sisters. Fellow poets Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman will join her for the reading. \nKaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival\, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages\, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a “history hurtling into the future.” Kaan and Her Sisters centers character of the Arabic teacher\, Miss Sahar\, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles\, refashioned songs\, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. In these disclosures\, a study of time and a record of resistance to erasure emerges\, and at its heart\, the women who keep intergenerational memory. “Our mothers miraculous\, persevering./No maps are new to the ancestors.” \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry\, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press\, 2024). Her second book of poems\, Kaan & Her Sisters is available now from Trio House Press. \nClaudia Castro Luna has been an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow\, the Washington State Poet Laureate\, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon; One River\, A Thousand Voices; the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías\, shortlisted for the Washington State 2018 Book Award in poetry; and the chapbook This City. Her most recent nonfiction can be found in the anthology There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Born in El Salvador\, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish\, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children. \nRachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis\, TN whose writing explores the creative work of diasporic living. Her poems have appeared in Narrative\, The Seventh Wave\, West Branch\, and many other journals\, and she has received material support from the Academy of American Poets\, the University of Washington\, Mineral School\, Crosstown Arts\, and Tin House. She teaches Language Arts in the Seattle Public Schools\, where embodiment and care root her personal\, poetic\, and pedagogical practice. Her debut book\, Dear Memphis\, will be published by River River Books in January 2024.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-with-claudia-castro-luna-and-rachel-edelman-at-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Kahlil Gibran ~ In Search of a Prophet
DESCRIPTION:This event commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the publication of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. \nJoin Paul-Gordon Chandler in conversation with Q&A about his new book\, In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran\, exploring the all-embracing spirituality of Kahlil Gibran\, the Lebanese born Arab-American poet-artist\, mystic and best-selling author of The Prophet. \nIn Search of a Prophet is a fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran. Paul-Gordon Chandler explores this beloved writer and artist\, a mystic who sought to build bridges and tear down walls. \nIn Search of a Prophet is not a traditional biography\, but a compelling spiritual journey through Gibran’s writings\, art\, and the places he lived. From his birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon\, Chandler leads us through his emigration to Boston\, art training in Paris\, career in New York\, and to the far reaching places of influence his writings and art have traveled\, from Cairo to Mexico City.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/kahlil-gibran-in-search-of-a-prophet/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Mona Kareem's 'I Will Not Fold These Maps'
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Mona Kareem’s poetry collection *I WILL NOT FOLD THESE MAPS*\, with Mona Kareem\, translator Sara Elkamel\, editor Nashwa Nasreldin\, and hosted by ArabLit’s M. Lynx Qualey. Co-organized by the Poetry Translation Centre and ArabLit\, this will be an hour of brilliant poetry & vibrant discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more about the collection\, and to pre-order\, visit the Poetry Translation Centre website: \nhttps://www.poetrytranslation.org/shop/i-will-not-fold-these-maps \nAnd\, for those attending the event\, there is a special 10% discount through this link. \nMona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. Her poetry has been translated into nine languages\, and appeared (in English) in: POETRY\, Poetry Northwest\, Michigan Quarterly\, Poetry London\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, among others. She is a recipient of a 2021 literary grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kareem holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and works as an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Her translations include Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (nominated for a BTBA award)\, Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for this Unseen Thread\, and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. \nSara Elkamel is a poet\, journalist and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University\, and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Elkamel’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, Ploughshares\, The Iowa Review\, The Yale Review\, and Gulf Coast\, among others\, and in the anthologies Best New Poets ‘20 & ‘22 and Best of the Net ‘20. She was named the winner of Redivider’s 2021 Blurred Genre Contest and the Tinderbox’s 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Elkamel’s debut chapbook “Field of No Justice” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021. \nNashwa Nasreldin is a writer\, editor\, and a translator of Arabic literature. She is the translator of the collaborative novel\, Shatila Stories\, from Peirene Press\, and Talib al-Rifae’s novel Shadow of the Sun\, which is forthcoming from Banipal Books. She is a contributing editor of ArabLit.org and ArabLit Quarterly\, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/book-launch-mona-kareems-i-will-not-fold-these-maps/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop on Arabic Poetry Forms
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Description \nDepending how you say it\, “ghazal” is either a gazelle or a type of poem. So if you really wanted to\, you could write en-DEERing poetry with us! In honor of April’s commemoration as National Poetry Month and Arab American Heritage Month\, this BrainTrust explores some traditional and contemporary forms and styles found in MENA and Arab American poetry. \nInstructed by Nadia Alamah
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poetry-workshop-on-arabic-poetry-forms/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Poet Charif Shanahan with Luther Hughes and Jane Wong
DESCRIPTION:Chicago poet Charif Shanahan visits Seattle on the occasion of his second published collection of poetry Trace Evidence. Two acclaimed local poets who have both read their poetry on Elliott Bay’s stage\, Jane Wong and Luther Hughes\, will join in the celebratory night of poetry.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poet-charif-shanahan-with-luther-hughes-and-jane-wong/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Hassaniya Arabic Poetry by Saharawi poet Zaim Allal
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Late Winter Poetry Translation Workshops 2023 collection\nTranslating the work of Zaim Allal\, a famous Saharawi poet who is living in a refugee camp in Algeria with Hamza Lakhal.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/hassaniya-arabic-poetry-by-saharawi-poet-zaim-allal/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T190000
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SUMMARY:Between Spaces – An AWP Off Site Reading
DESCRIPTION:University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics\, Kelsey Street Press\, Essay Press and Bellingham Review host a hybridisciplinary phonetic transference (an awp offsite reading) featuring Ally Ang\, Kiran Bath\, Steven Dunn\, Valerie Hsiung\, Diana Khoi Nguyen\, Dennis James Sweeney\, Andrea Abi-Karam and Keith S. Wilson.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/between-spaces-an-awp-off-site-reading/
LOCATION:Common AREA Maintenance\, 2125 2nd Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T203000
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SUMMARY:AWP Seattle Offsite Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us at AWP Seattle for an offsite reading at Cherry Street Coffee House (700 1st Avenue location) on Friday\, March 10\, at 7 PM\, featuring poets Gabrielle Bates\, Darrel Alejandro Holnes\, Patrycja Humienik\, Jason Koo\, Eugenia Leigh\, José Olivarez\, imogen xtian smith and Dujie Tahat! Free and open to the public. Doors will open for the event at 6:30 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/awp-seattle-offsite-reading/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Coffee House (Pioneer Square)\, 700 1st Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading\nFriday Mar 10 2023 7:00pm – 8:00pm\nJoin us for an evening of poetry in which the borders between languages fall away and only poetry remains. Featuring poets Deema Shehabi\, Fady Joudah\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, Lubna Safi\, and Zeina Hashem Beck. \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry\, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press\, 2024). Her second book of poems\, Kaan & Her Sisters is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July\, 2023. \nFady Joudah has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and\, most recently\, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Arab American Book Award\, a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine. \nDeema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures From the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\, for which she received the Northern California Book Award’s NCBR Recognition Award. She is also co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and the winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018. \nZeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of\, most recently\, O\, named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s the co-creator and co-host of Maqsouda\, a podcast about Arabic poetry produced by Sowt. \nLubna Safi is a poet\, writer\, and graduate student residing in California. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica\, The Journal\, MIZNA\, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection\, Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and is published by Texas Tech University Press
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/awp-offsite-glossing-the-margins-a-bi-lingual-arabic-english-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Panel Discussion,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Black SWANA Lit: Mizna Reading + DJ – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
DESCRIPTION:Northwest Film Forum and Mizna present an AWP offsite reading to mark the release of Mizna’s Black Takeover Issue\, guest-edited by acclaimed poet Safia Elhillo. This collection of Black writing from the SWANA region and diaspora is a first-of-its-kind\, and we’re celebrating its launch with a killer line-up of writers including Safia Elhillo and a DJ set by fab creative Ladin Awad.\nThis program is supported by National Endowment for the Arts\, Minnesota State Arts Board\, and Minnesota Center for Humanities.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/black-swana-lit-mizna-reading-dj-an-awp-offsite-event-in-person-only/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T160000
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SUMMARY:Growth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad
DESCRIPTION:7 p.m. ET Friday\, Feb. 24\, 2023\nGrowth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad\nIn-person at AANM\nFree with RSVP | Register for Livestream \nPlease note: To share work at the Open Mic\, you must attend in person. An online livestream is available for non-local residents to tune in as part of the audience only. \n  \nJoin us for an Open Mic Night\, hosted by AANM artist-in-residence Hana Saad! We are creating a space for writers and musicians to continue sharing their work. We invite you to reflect on the theme of Growth – both literally and figuratively. Prepare a three-minute story about your favorite plant\, the ways the world has changed you\, or a lamentation for the earth. Hana Saad will also share the poetry she’s created while in residency\, about the flowers of the Beqaa Valley.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/growth-open-mic-w-hana-saad/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T220000
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SUMMARY:Online Ticket—Poetry Reading—Out of the Ordinary Conference
DESCRIPTION:This public poetry reading forms part of the programme of Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World\, a three day conference on poetry’s relationship to the extraordinary. This carbon-neutral event will be held at the University of Canberra over December 5th\, 6th and 7th 2022. For all further info: https://www.ucpoetry2022.info/ \nREADERS:\, Paul Collis\, Olena Kalytiak Davis and Omar Sakr \nOmar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books\, 2017)\, and The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press\, 2019)\, which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win this prestigious award. The Lost Arabs was also shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award\, the John Bray Poetry Award\, the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award\, and the Colin Roderick Award; it has been released in the US and worldwide through Andrews McMeel Universal. In 2019\, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry\, and in 2020\, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been published in English\, Arabic\, and Spanish. Omar’s debut novel\, Son of Sin (Affirm Press)\, was published in 2022. \nhttp://omarsakr.com/
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/online-ticket-poetry-reading-out-of-the-ordinary-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Benefit for the Palestine Writing Workshop with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW\, www.mecaforpeace.org/lastleaf  to hear the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop\, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat— on Saturday\, October 29\, 11am PT / 2pm ET — with her new book\, “You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems”. She and Deema K. Shehabi will share poetry and conversation in this virtual event. \nBooklist wrote about Maya’s new book\, “Al-Hayyat’s latest devastating and courageous collection captures the precarious everyday lives of Palestinians with enormous empathy and glistening clarity.” \n  \nMaya Abu Al-Hayyat is a Palestinian writer\, storyteller\, and mother based in occupied East Jerusalem. Each day she passes through Israeli checkpoints\, like the infamous Qalandia checkpoint\, to direct the Palestine Writing Workshop\, one of MECA’s partner organizations. Maya and her team at the Palestine Writing Workshop have published award-winning Arabic children’s books and led hundreds of interactive workshops from Nablus to Silwan to Gaza for children\, youth\, librarians and parents on reading aloud\, creative writing\, and storytelling. Her work is grounded in the belief that art and literature can change lives and aims to improve Palestinian children’s literacy and also encourage their imaginations. She is a gifted storyteller who captures the attention of children of all ages (and adults too!).Maya also runs writing courses for former prisoners\, helping them transform trauma into art. \nShe has published four collections of poems\, four novels\, and numerous children’s stories\, including The Blue Pool of Questions. She contributed to and wrote a foreword for A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry\, and she is an editor of The Book of Ramallah. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Cordite Poetry Review\, The Guardian\, and Literary Hub. \n  \nPlease join us to learn more about Maya’s work and life in Palestine!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/benefit-for-the-palestine-writing-workshop-with-maya-abu-al-hayyat/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jamal Gabobe presents 'The Path of Difference' at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park
DESCRIPTION:Third Place Books welcomes local poet Jamal Gabobe to our Lake Forest Park store! Gabobe will be discussing his third collection of poetry The Path of Difference. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance. \nCopies of The Path of Difference will be available for purchase at the store. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/jamal-gabobe-presents-the-path-of-difference-at-third-place-books-in-lake-forest-park/
LOCATION:Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park\, 17171 Bothell Way NE #A101\, Lake Forest Park\, WA\, 98155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220907T190000
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SUMMARY:Rajiv Mohabir and Mortada Gzar - Live at Elliott Bay
DESCRIPTION:Noted poet and translator Rajiv Mohabir\, along with Seattle-based Iraqi writer Mortada Gzar (more on him below) make this welcome September visit for the paperback of Roajiv Mohabir’s much-acclaimed prose debut\, Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir. Recipient of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing (which has helped launch several excellent books)\, this was also a Lambda and PEN Book Book Award finalist\, and received a 2021 Indies FOREWORD Award for LGBTQ+ non-fiction.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/rajiv-mohabir-and-mortada-gzar-at-elliott-bay/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Lecture/Panel Discussion,Poetry
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SUMMARY:New Third World Presents: Launch Party for Unceded Land by Issam Zineh
DESCRIPTION:Featuring George Abraham\, Ruth Awad\, Carolina Ebeid\, Adele Elise Williams\, and Issam Zineh. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nJoin us for a poetry reading and virtual celebration of highly anticipated debut collection from poet and scientist Issam Zineh – Unceded Land (Trio House Press\, 2022) 🖤 Saturday\, August 20 at 1pn Eastern 🖤 \nFeaturing readings by George Abraham\, Ruth Awad\, Carolina Ebeid\, Adele Elise Williams\, and Issam Zineh. \nHosted by the New Third World Reading Series 🖤 \n__ \nThis is a virtual event and will be hosted on Zoom. RSVP below to receive the Zoom link and reminder emails ahead of the event 🌹 \nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/new-third-world-presents-launch-party-for-unceded-land-by-issam-zineh/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:(Live and In person)  SHOP EVENTS STAFF PICKS ABOUT US MY ACCOUNT CONTACT Claire Schwartz\, Gabrielle Bates\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:A Seattle visit and a remarkable new debut by New York-based poet Claire Schwartz helps occasion what would be an excellent evening of work here as she is joined by esteemed Seattle poets Gabrielle Bates and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Claire Schwartz\,  who is poetry editor of Jewish Currents\, has a compelling first book out from Graywolf\, Civil Service. \n“The power of this book is in its uncontrollable private will to imagine against the public failure of imagination. The poet dismembers our political reality into the double-edged lines\, into the bare and ashamed symbols and silences. Brutal and coy\, Claire Schwartz creates a scream out of irony and a rhythm out of the four corners of the page.”—Valzhyna Mort. \n“We’ve all heard the cliché ‘poems are bombs.’ But Claire Schwartz’s incendiaries whisper hard truths and harder questions\, beckoning us closer\, seeping gently into our consciousness before exploding the passive and placid thinking that allow us to go about our ‘normal’ lives. Civil Service shines a bright light onto a dark world ruled by property\, prisons\, patriarchy\, and profit.”—Robin D. G. Kelley. \nGabrielle Bates has her debut poetry collection\, Judas Goat coming from Tin House Books in 2023\, works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is most recently the Washington State Book Award winner of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press) and Arab in Newsland\, winner of the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize. \nThis reading has now been moved to our friends and colleagues at Open Books: A Poem Emporium.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/live-and-in-person-shop-events-staff-picks-about-us-my-account-contact-claire-schwartz-gabrielle-bates-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220713T193000
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SUMMARY:Zeina Hashem Beck (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Much-praised Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck makes this welcome visit by virtual means to read from her newly published third full-length collection\, O (Penguin Poets). Writing in Arabic and English\, she cuts to the quick here\, in form\, range\, breadth – and breath. \n“O is so full of life\, of music and passion for life. In ghazals\, odes\, revolution songs and invocations of O the world comes vividly alive: ‘I carry a name & many cities\,’ writes Hashem Beck\, as her poems unfold the abundance of our world. Abundance\, yes: so much tenderness\, so much passion in these pages: just one language can’t contain it all\, so the poet gives us ‘Duets\,’ joining Arabic and English in the same stanza. The lyricism is a vehicle of emotional impact … Hashem Beck’s prayer isn’t shy of calling for revolution\, of asking ‘to occupy the streets\, bring the tires\, the sofas\, the drums\, the blaring cars.’ Zeina Hashem Beck’s prayer isn’t afraid of stories\, of new music on your balconies. Listen. Her O brims with the world.” —Ilya Kaminsky. \n“Western readers often consume books by international authors like perverse anthropologists\, scanning for a word or phrase that buttresses their ill-informed preconceptions\, cudgeling a writer’s meticulously woven lyric into vapid social generality. Zeina Hashem Beck’s O rebukes this tendency explicitly in an early poem: “I’m tired of metaphors about peace. // I prefer dark chocolate in the morning\, / & a good window.” And then throughout the collection\, she rebukes it with her truly undeniable poems—rhymes braid across multiple languages\, intricate forms fracture under the weight of their subjects. In one unforgettable piece\, a subtle incantation ends on the name of a flower that looses itself across the page like so many petals. Unforgettable\, undeniable—these are the words I keep coming back to with O. Anyone who reads it in earnest will emerge better made.” —Kaveh Akbar. \nZeina Hashem Beck’s other collections include Louder Than Hearts\, To Live in Autumn\, and the chapbooks 3arabi Song and There Was and How Much There Was. \n\nVirtually hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/zeina-hashem-beck-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Arab Women in Poetry: streaming online
DESCRIPTION:This event features live readings from two incredible Arab-American poets Priscilla Wathington and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with the theme of REVOLUTION. \nThe readings will be followed by a discussion moderated by Zeina Azzam. \nThis event would not be possible without the assistance and support of Summer Farah and the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI).
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/revolutionary-arab-women-in-poetry-streaming-online/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Across Languages with Fady Joudah\, Tomás Q. Morín\, and Niina Pollari
DESCRIPTION:The New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival celebrates books and writers from around the world and reflects the languages spoken in our communities. Discover free author talks\, resources\, book recommendations\, and more for all ages in world languages. \nJoin the Library as we welcome Fady Joudah\, Tomás Q. Morín\, and Niina Pollari  in conversation in English in the panel “Poetry Across Languages”. \nThis event is ONLINE ONLY.\nRegister Here!\n  \nFady Joudah has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and\, most recently\, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine.  Photo credit  © Cybele Knowles. \nTomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the forthcoming memoir Let Me Count the Ways\, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology\, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine\, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.  Photo credit © Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon. \nNiina Pollari is a poet and Finnish translator. She is the author of the poetry collections Path of Totality (Soft Skull 2022) and Dead Horse (Birds\, LLC 2015)\, and the translator of Tytti Heikkinen’s The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books 2012). \nJoin the staff of the Yorkville\, Belmont and Bronx Library Center libraries for this exciting literary conversation. \nNote: Program will be recorded.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poetry-across-languages-with-fady-joudah-tomas-q-morin-and-niina-pollari/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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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/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Misna: The Experimental Issue Virtual Launch
DESCRIPTION:Event details\n  \n\nOn Sunday\, January 30\, join Mizna in launching The Experimental Issue with TWENTY ONE AUTHORS. \nFeatured readers include Mays Albaik\, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman\, Darius Atefat-Peckman\, Hajjar Baban\, Doris Bittar\, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán\, Mohammed El-Kurd\, Tracy Fuad\, Farah Kader\, Magdeline Maher\, Khashayar Mohammadi\, Yasmine Rukia\, hana roz\, Trish Salah\, Glenn Shaheen\, Nadia Shihab\, Fargo Tbakhi\, Mohamed Tonsy\, Sarah Sophia Yanni\, Omar Zahzah + Issam Zineh. \nThis event takes place virtually at 11 am CT\, RSVP required. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nTamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman (she/her) is a bi-racial Muslim writer\, historian\, poet\, and artist. Her first book of poetry “The Raven\, The Bayou\, & The Willow ” is forthcoming through FlowerSong Press Spring 2022. She is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow (2020)\, a Rad(ical) Poetry Fellow (2020)\, and a poet for the Houston Grand Opera & MFAH’s event “The Art of Intimacy.” (2019) She was nominated this year for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. Her work can be found in (Art) WORDPEACE and Mixed Magazine\, (Fiction) Crack the Spine Literary Magazine\, (Poetry) Boundless 2021: The Anthology of the Rio Grande River Valley International Poetry Festival\, and others. \nHajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish Poet. A 2021 PD Soros Fellow and current MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Virginia\, she has poems appearing in BAHR Magazine and the Southeast Review. You can read her work here: hajjarbaban.com \nDoris Bittar is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting\, photography\, installation\, video\, sound and performance. Bittar participated with Gulf Labor in the Venice Biennale in 2015 and other international and national exhibits. She won the Alexandria\, Egypt Biennial 2nd prize and various awards\, grants and recognitions in the United States and abroad. \nAhimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review’s international queer Indigenous issue; and co-editor of Movement Research Performance Journal’s Native dance/movement/performance issue. \nTracy Fuad is the author of about:blank\, chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and published in 2021 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA Program and a 2021-22 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and teaches poetry at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. \nFarah Kader is a New York-based public health analyst. She was a recipient of the 2017 Palestinian Youth Movement’s Ghassan Kanafani Writing Prize and a 2019 Hopwood Graduate Award for poetry. Kader’s work has been published in Mizna\, Orion Magazine\, Electric Literature\, and Narrative Magazine. \nKhashayar Mohammadi (He/They) is a queer\, Iranian born\, Toronto-based Poet\, Writer and Translator. They are the winner of the Vallum Poetry Prize 2021 and author of four poetry Chapbooks. Their debut poetry collection “Me\, You\, Then Snow” is out with Gordon Hill Press. \nYasmine Rukia is a first generation Lebanese-American Shia experimental poet. Her work exploring the nexus between hyphens\, breaths and beliefs can be found in the Black Warrior Review\, Mizna\, Cliterature\, The Gordon Square Review\, The Belt\, Jaffat el-aqlam and others. She lives in Dearborn Michigan with her two sons. \nGlenn Shaheen is the author of four books. He is the Executive Director of the Radius of Arab American Writers and teaches at Prairie View A&M University. \nFargo Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian performance artist\, a Taurus\, and a cool breeze. Find more at fargotbakhi.com. \nMohamed Tonsy is a queer Egyptian writer\, ceramicist and a PhD graduate of Edinburgh University. His writing has recently appeared in Epoch Press’s ‘Transitions’ issue\, e.i.i.i zine’s ‘Navel’ issue\, is set to appear in Mizna’s unthemed Summer 2022 issue\, and has been shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short Story Competition. His debut novel — You Must Believe in Spring — is set to be published by Hajar Press\, late 2022. \nSarah Sophia Yanni is a Mexican-Egyptian writer\, editor\, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press\, 2019) and was a Finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest\, Poetry Online’s 2021 Launch Prize\, and the Hayden’s Ferry Review Inaugural Poetry Contest. She currently serves as Managing Editor of Tiding House and holds a Faculty Fellowship at CalArts. \nOmar Zahzah is a writer\, poet\, independent scholar\, and organizer of Lebanese-Palestinian descent whose creative\, critical\, political\, academic\, and journalistic writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from various publications including Narrative magazine\, Mizna\, FIYAH\, Electronic Intifada\, Middle East Eye\, Arab Studies Quarterly\, Full Stop\, and the New York Times. Several of Omar’s poems were featured in the anthology\, Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry. In 2016\, Omar’s chapbook 13 Almost Love Poems was released\, and Omar’s chapbook\, DEATH\, is forthcoming from swallow::tale press. Omar is the Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine as well as a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI.) Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. \nIssam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is author of the poetry collection Unceded Land (forthcoming summer 2022\, Trio House Press) and the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel\, 2021). His poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI\, Pleiades\, Gulf Coast\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. Find him at issamzineh.com or on Twitter @izineh.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/misna-the-experimental-issue-virtual-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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SUMMARY:EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham
DESCRIPTION:7 p.m. ET Saturday\, Dec. 18\, 2021\nEVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham\nIn-person at The Annex @ AANM OR virtual via online livestream \nFREE with RSVP\nRegister for in-person attendance OR Register for virtual attendance  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry and performance art with Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham! This event will showcase work from the local community\, featuring work composed in George and Fargo’s Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop. Thereafter\, Fargo and George will perform\, for the first time ever\, an excerpt from their residency project: EVE — A Palestinian Necropastoral\, a re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost through the lens of Palestinian liberation. \nThis is a hybrid performance. In-person participants will attend at The Annex @ AANM and virtual participants will attend via online livestream. All AANM guests are required to show proof of full vaccination\, remain masked\, and fill out a health screening form upon check-in in order to attend this event. \nFor questions\, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org. \n  \nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize\, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC\, VisArts\, Desert Nights Rising Stars\, Halcyon Arts Lab\, Mosaic Theater\, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter\, Mizna\, Peach Mag\, Apex Magazine\, Strange Horizons\, the Shallow Ends\, Prolit\, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest\, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest\, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival\, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball\, Mosaic Theater\, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. \nGeorge Abraham is a Palestinian American poet\, writer\, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville\, FL). His debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award\, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers\, and recipient of fellowships from The Boston Foundation\, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review\, Mizna\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University\, Abraham is currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/eve-a-poetry-performance-project-by-fargo-tbakhi-and-george-abraham/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211215T150000
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SUMMARY:Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop with George Abraham and Fargo Tbakhi 
DESCRIPTION:6 p.m. ET Wednesday\, Dec. 15\, 2021\nExploring Poetry through Performance Workshop with George Abraham and Fargo Tbakhi \nIn-person at AANM Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center OR virtual via Zoom  \nPurchase in-person tickets\nMuseum Members: $12\nGeneral Public: $15\nStudents: $10 \nOR register for FREE virtual attendance \nAlthough performance strategies and techniques are not often taught within mainstream poetry spaces\, they can offer unique modes of inspiration and revision for poets. This workshop will explore poets who use performance in dynamic ways\, learning practical techniques and exercises for animating poems with performance. \nOpen to writers at all levels – we just ask that participants come with a piece they have already drafted and would like to expand with performance exercises. Participating writers will have the opportunity to perform their work at EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham on Saturday\, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. ET. \nThis is a hybrid workshop. In-person participants will attend at the AANM Library and virtual participants will attend via Zoom. All AANM guests are required to show proof of full vaccination\, remain masked\, and fill out a health screening form upon check-in in order to attend this event. \nFor questions\, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org. \n  \nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize\, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC\, VisArts\, Desert Nights Rising Stars\, Halcyon Arts Lab\, Mosaic Theater\, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter\, Mizna\, Peach Mag\, Apex Magazine\, Strange Horizons\, the Shallow Ends\, Prolit\, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest\, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest\, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival\, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball\, Mosaic Theater\, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. \nGeorge Abraham is a Palestinian American poet\, writer\, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville\, FL). His debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award\, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers\, and recipient of fellowships from The Boston Foundation\, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review\, Mizna\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University\, Abraham is currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.
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CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Almond Blossom Knows Its Life Is Short: Poetry of Palestinian Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Description: In this class we will explore a selection of translated poetry by Palestinian women. How do these poets tend to loss? How do they engage with their interiors while living in varying states of siege\, occupation\, or exile? What are their obsessions? Which mythologies do they reject and which others do they remake? Together we’ll read across generations\, including poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat\, Asmaa’ Azaizeh\, Ahlam Bisharat\, Laila Al-Sa’ih\, and Fadwa Touqan. Join us to reflect together on theme and structure; to encounter texts in the original Arabic alongside the translations; and to end with a writing prompt inspired by our exploration. \nFormat: Online via Zoom
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-almond-blossom-knows-its-life-is-short-poetry-of-palestinian-women-in-translation-copy/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T190000
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SUMMARY:The Almond Blossom Knows Its Life Is Short: Poetry of Palestinian Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Description: In this class we will explore a selection of translated poetry by Palestinian women. How do these poets tend to loss? How do they engage with their interiors while living in varying states of siege\, occupation\, or exile? What are their obsessions? Which mythologies do they reject and which others do they remake? Together we’ll read across generations\, including poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat\, Asmaa’ Azaizeh\, Ahlam Bisharat\, Laila Al-Sa’ih\, and Fadwa Touqan. Join us to reflect together on theme and structure; to encounter texts in the original Arabic alongside the translations; and to end with a writing prompt inspired by our exploration. \nFormat: Online via Zoom
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-almond-blossom-knows-its-life-is-short-poetry-of-palestinian-women-in-translation/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211114T133000
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SUMMARY:The Ground and the Sky: Creative Writing Workshops for Youth with Ibtisam Barakat & Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION:THIS is a TWO PART SERIES\n2 p.m. ET Sunday\, Nov. 14\, 2021\nAND\n2 p.m. ET Sunday\, Nov. 21\, 2021\nOnline via Zoom\nFREE with RSVP \nWhat are we rooted in? What can we imagine? Come ready to open the doors of your imagination for your dreams to touch where no one has yet reached. Renowned writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Ibtisam Barakat will lead this two-part writing workshop for high school students – no experience necessary! \nThis online workshop series\, taking place via Zoom\, will help to envision\, create and accomplish new greatness. The past is mapped out\, but that map contains many mysteries\, worth exploring\, and the future needs a blueprint. Bring a blue-ink pen with you if you wish\, for navigation of the great sea of ideas and possibilities. We are appreciating the past and going to the future\, together! \nStudents who attend will receive a gifted copy of Naomi Shihab Nye’s 19 Varieties of Gazelle by mail (within the U.S.) after the workshop! \nFor questions\, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org. \nNaomi Shihab Nye\, Palestinian American\, is the Young People’s Poet Laureate of the United States\, through the Poetry Foundation. She has worked all her life as a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities. Her most recent books are Everything Comes Next\, Cast Away\, The Tiny Journalist\, which won both Texas poetry awards (Texas Institute of Letters and Writers League) and Voices in the Air – Poems for Listeners.  \nIbtisam Barakat is a Palestinian American bilingual poet and author\, and the 2020 Sheihk Zayed Book Award laureate of young people’s literature. SZBA\, for the Arabic language\, is comparable to the Nobel Prize\, for the English language. Ibtisam is the founder of Write Your Life seminars that she has led for audiences of all ages around the world\, in both English and Arabic. Her vision is a more representative human history that includes everyone’s stories in their own voices. Ibtisam’s memoirs about growing up in Palestine\, Tasting the Sky\, a Palestinian Childhood\, and Balcony on the Moon\, Coming of Age in Palestine\, won multiple honors\, including the International Reading Association’s Best Book Award\, the Middle East Book Award\, and the Arab American Book Award. Her most recent books include The Lilac Girl\, SZBA 2020 winner\, and The Jar that Became a Galaxy\, title book for the National Reading Campaign of Palestine 2019. She has two new books forthcoming in 2021. www.ibtisambarakat.com
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-ground-and-the-sky-creative-writing-workshops-for-youth-with-ibtisam-barakat-naomi-shihab-nye/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Donkeysaddle Projects Presents: The Vignette Collective's Workshop Reading
DESCRIPTION:As we continue to bear witness to the attacks on Palestinian lives\, we understand how present the voices of our artists are and need to be. During these times we look to artists within impacted communities as beacons for cultural transformation. Donkeysaddle Projects’ Vignette Collective strives to connect the decolonial struggles of Black\, Palestinian\, Chicanx\, and Turtle Island’s Indigenous communities. Through poetry\, personal essays\, and performance\, we look at the impacts of settler-colonization and celebrate the resilience of those who have been in struggle. And we want to share it with you.  \n  \nThat’s why we’re inviting you to join us on November 12th at 8pm ET for our 2nd virtual fundraiser featuring the work-in-progress from the Vignettes Collective. Get another sneak peek of our creative\, collaborative process with our collective of artists\, activists\, and organizers\, while raising funds to support Palestinians in urgent need in Gaza. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/donkeysaddle-projects-presents-the-vignette-collectives-workshop-reading/
CATEGORIES:Art,Benefit/Fundraiser,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T203000
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SUMMARY:Kaveh Akbar: In‑Person & Online
DESCRIPTION:How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? Pilgrim Bell\, Kaveh Akbar’s newest collection of poems\, meditates on this question\, taking readers on a spiritual journey through disavowal\, divinity\, and belonging. \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Akbar’s brilliant poems unfold in the empty space where song lives\, teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nQ&A with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/kaveh-akbar-in%e2%80%91person-online/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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