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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/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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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/
CATEGORIES:Music,Poetry
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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/
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/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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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/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Visit with Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION:Naomi Shihab Nye \n09/24/2020 – 6:30PM \nBenefit for PONGO Poetry Project One of this country’s foremost poets\, a poet who has had her work published in collections for forty years now\, Naomi Shihab Nye does a virtual visit to support the vital work of non-profit Pongo Teen Writing’s Poetry Project in a two-part \nprogram. Naomi Shihab Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards\, is the author of many books of poems\, including some for younger readers. Her most recent is last year’s The Tiny Journalist (BOA). \n“On every page\, Shihab Nye’s insistent call is the same: people\, all people\, deserve to live safe and healthy lives\, free from fear and violence. She mourns\, rages\, takes politicians to task\, but always lands on the side of compassion.” – Shelf Awareness.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-visit-with-naomi-shihab-nye/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T180000
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SUMMARY:Simon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback
DESCRIPTION:7:30 p.m. EDT Friday\, Sept. 18\, 2020\nSimon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback\nFree with RSVP; $10 suggested donation \nRSVP for streaming link \nLet music and poetry end your week on a sweet note with a night of exclusive performances by world renowned artists\, musician Simon Shaheen and writer/poet Naomi Shihab Nye\, followed by a live talkback!  \nSimon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique\, melodic ingenuity\, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin. As a composer\, Shaheen has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, Meet the Composer\, the Jerome Foundation\, Continental Harmony\, and Yellow Springs Institute. In addition to performing with his two bands\, Qantara and the Near Eastern Music Ensemble\, Shaheen tours as a solo artist internationally and as a lecturer throughout the academic world promoting awareness to Arab music through numerous lectures and workshop presentations. Shaheen is currently an instructor at Berklee School of Music\, and directs the Arabic Music Retreat each summer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. \nNaomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an American of German and Swiss descent\, and Nye spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio\, Texas. Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work\, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle and the Paterson Poetry Prize\, among others. The Poetry Foundation named Nye the Young People’s Poet Laureate for 2019 to 2021\, making her the first Arab American to earn this honor. Known for poetry that lends a fresh perspective to ordinary events\, people\, and objects\, Nye’s experience of both cultural difference and different cultures has influenced much of her work. Nye is also considered one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest. In addition to poetry\, Nye has written fiction for children\, poetry and song recordings\, and poetry translations. She has also published a book of essays and edited several anthologies.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/simon-shaheen-naomi-shihab-nye-in-concert-talkback/
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Panel Discussion,Music,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem
DESCRIPTION:12 – 2 p.m. EDT\, Sunday\, Aug. 30\, 2020\nVirtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem\nFree\nRegistration required by Aug. 13 \nJoin AANM artist-in-residence\, poet\, and translator Mona Kareem for a one-day Virtual Poetry Workshop! This workshop is for adult writers and teens age 17+ who are committed to using poetry as a medium to explore and intertwine the personal with the political. Those interested in themes\, practices\, theory and/or poetics of translation in relation to expression and narrative are especially welcome to join. \nMona Kareem will provide participants with two texts to review as well as a writing prompt prior to the workshop (via email). The workshop will unfold\, via Zoom\, with a close reading of selected texts\, followed by an open reading and discussion of participants’ poems. \nWorkshop timeline: \nAug. 13: Registration deadline; limited to 10 participants\nAug. 16: Poet will provide participants with selected reading texts and a writing prompt\nAug. 23: Writing prompt submission deadline\nAug. 30: Workshop from 12 – 2 p.m. \nRegister by Aug. 13 to secure your spot in the workshop! \nMona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently Femme Ghosts (Publication Studio\, 2019)\, a trilingual chapbook. Her work has been translated into nine languages and published in anthologies and periodicals\, including Brooklyn Rail\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Ambit\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Asymptote\, Words Without Borders\, Poetry International\, PEN English\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, Two Lines and Specimen. She has held fellowships with Poetry International\, BANFF Center\, Norwich Center and Forum Transregionale Studien. Kareem has been a featured writer at festivals and conferences in Cairo\, Istanbul\, Berlin\, Amsterdam\, Brussels\, Seoul\, Copenhagen and across the United States. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton\, and has taught at SUNY Binghamton\, Rutgers\, Bronx Community College and the University of Maryland. \n  \nRelated event: Aug. 13: Live Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-poetry-workshop-with-mona-kareem/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Live Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem
DESCRIPTION:6 p.m. EDT\, Thursday\, Aug. 13\, 2020\nLive Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem\nFree\, livestreamed on Facebook\nRSVP to Facebook event  \nJoin AANM artist-in-residence Mona Kareem for a live reading from her poetry collection Crossover\, and discussion with AANM director Dr. Diana Abouali. \nThroughout her residency\, taking place remotely\, Kareem is finalizing Crossover\, a poetry collection that touches on themes particular to Arab experience/s in the United States: the loss or gain of language\, the weight of a marked body passing through airports\, the lingua of immigration and bureaucratic violence\, and the fetishization of Arab sexuality in visual culture and colonial imaginary. The poems cross a range of narratives\, working beyond the typical family-story\, as many of us have arrived alone to this continent. They explore what this loneliness entails\, especially for the bilingual artist. \nMona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently Femme Ghosts (Publication Studio\, 2019)\, a trilingual chapbook. Her work has been translated into nine languages and published in anthologies and periodicals\, including Brooklyn Rail\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Ambit\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Asymptote\, Words Without Borders\, Poetry International\, PEN English\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, Two Lines and Specimen. She has held fellowships with Poetry International\, BANFF Center\, Norwich Center and Forum Transregionale Studien. Kareem has been a featured writer at festivals and conferences in Cairo\, Istanbul\, Berlin\, Amsterdam\, Brussels\, Seoul\, Copenhagen and across the United States. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton\, and has taught at SUNY Binghamton\, Rutgers\, Bronx Community College and the University of Maryland. \n  \nRelated event: Aug. 30: Virtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/live-reading-discussion-with-mona-kareem/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200626T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200626T100000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Literary Panel - 6-26-2020 - Palestine Museum US
DESCRIPTION:Leading Palestinian Writers/Poets Read & Discuss their Recent works \nModerated by Dina Omar \nPoet: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha \nNovelist: Sahar Mustafah \n12:00 PM  1:00 PM EST (9am – 10am PST) \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-virtual-literary-panel-6-26-2020-palestine-museum-us/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200612T090000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Literary Panel - 6-12-2020 - Palestine Museum US
DESCRIPTION:Literary Panel 6/12\n\n\nDescription \nLeading Palestinian Writers Read & Discuss their Recent works\n\nTime \n\nJun 12\, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-virtual-literary-panel-6-12/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200606T110000
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SUMMARY:Windows/Shababeek: A Sukoon Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:Windows/Shababeek: A Sukoon Virtual Reading\n\n\nAANM presents a Sukoon bilingual live reading around the theme of Windows/Shababeek\, curated and hosted by Sukoon founding editor Rewa Zeinati\, and featuring an incredible lineup of Arab writers and poets: Zeyn Joukhadar\, Zeina Hashem Beck\, Philip Metres\, George Abraham\, Sahar Mustafa\, Zeina Azzam (Arabic) and Farah Chamma (Arabic).\n\nWe’ve spent the last several weeks observing life go back and forth to stillness\, isolation\, fear or healing\, all through the windows of our homes (if we are privileged enough to have them). We’ve pondered other people’s lives existing behind their own windows. What joy or confusion or horror was multiplied? Join us for this bilingual poetry and fiction virtual live reading in collaboration with Sukoon\, exploring—in the most broad or intimate sense—the various and infinite ways we interpret the barriers\, filters or open fields we call “windows” and how these inform the light and shadows we allow or dissipate.\n\nThis virtual reading will be streamed live on AANM’s Facebook page\, so be sure to RSVP to the Facebook event to be notified and tune in when the livestream goes up. 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/windows-shababeek-a-sukoon-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Justice Beats
DESCRIPTION:JUSTICE BEATS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCHEDULE / EASTERN STANDARD TIME!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Peace Poets / 1 pm. (10am PST)\nDJ Sarouna / 1:15pm (10:15am PST)\nClarissa Bitar / 1:50pm (10:50am PST\nTy Defoe / 2:15pm (11:15am PST)\nJohn Scott-Richardson / 2:35pm (11:35am PST)\nDakota Camacho / 2:50pm (11:50am PST)\nRebel Betty / 3:15pm (12:15pm PST)\nEmmanual Candelario / Peace Poets / 3:55pm (12:55pm PST)\nYadira De La Riva / 4:05pm (1:05pm PST)\nTef Poe / 4:20pm (1:20pm PST)\nAgile One / 5:05pm (2:05pm PST)\nPacia Elaine / 5:35pm (2:35pm PST)\nMakeda Kravitz / 5:45pm (2:45pm PST)\nFrantz Jerome /  Peace Poets / 6:20pm (3:20pm PST)\n MarshaMayI? / 6:25pm (3:25pm PST)\nLyriq Tye / 6:55pm (3:55pm PST)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.justicebeats.com/lineup
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/justice-beats/
CATEGORIES:Music,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200523T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200523T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20200523T024840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T025150Z
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SUMMARY:Team Mashallah Poetry Eid
DESCRIPTION:Team Mashallah Poetry Eid\nwith Angel Nafis\, Fatimah Asghar\, Safia Elhillo\, Hanif Abdurraqib\, Kaveh Akbar\n\n\n\n\nWhen: Sat\, May 23\, 3pm – 4pm\n\nE-mail: teammashallahpoetry@gmail.com for Zoom invite!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/team-mashallah-poetry-eid/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200522T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200522T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20200523T024613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T024613Z
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SUMMARY:SYZYGY reading series:  with Janan Alexandra and Others
DESCRIPTION:SYZYGY reading series: ross gay\, marlee grace\, janan alexandra\, l. renée\, juliet johnson\, essence london\, sophie whitmore\n\n\n\nWhen:  Fri\, May 22\, 4pm – 5pm\n\nDescription:  https://wthetrees.earth/syzygy\n\nOn Zoom at 7pm EST:\nRegister here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEud-moqDIoHtd4KHXGieDlIabxKNtUdJ8R
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/syzygy-reading-series-with-janan-alexandra-and-others/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200429T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20200217T112029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T112029Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics:  Naomi Shihab Nye and Lena Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:The Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics is thrilled to welcome Naomi Shihab Nye to the University of Washington on Wednesday\, April 29\, 2020. We are also excited to welcome Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award\, who will be in conversation with Naomi after her reading. A reception will be held from 6:00-6:30 in wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ–Intellectual House. From 6:30-8:00\, the reading/conversation and book signing will follow. \nMany thanks to Suhad Khatib for granting permission to use her beautiful work\, “The Return” in the poster. And many thanks to Dilara Elbir for her design. \nArtist Bios:\nNaomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a “wandering poet.” She has spent 40 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis\, Jerusalem\, and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage\, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas\, and her experiences traveling in Asia\, Europe\, Canada\, Mexico\, and the Middle East\, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity. Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes. Her most recent book is Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners. Her new book of poems is entitled The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions Ltd.\, April 2019). \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. She earned a BA in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and an MFA in Poetry at the Rainier Writing Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University She is the author of the full-length poetry collection\, Water & Salt\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry\, and the chapbooks Arab in Newsland (2016) and Letters from the Interior (2019). Her work has been published in journals including Blackbird\, Kenyon Review Online\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, New England Review\, Poetry Northwest\, TriQuarterly\, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day feature. Her poems have been widely anthologized and have received the Robert Watson Literary Prize and multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She is the recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship\, and has served as the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle. You can learn more about her work at www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com. \nSuhad Khatib (b. 1979) is a multimedia artist who was born in Oman\, raised in Jordan and been living in the US for the past 14 years. Her work was shown in Montreal\, Connecticut\, Berkeley\, New York\, San Francisco and Amman. She describes her work as “an intentional study on healing and identity.” Suhad is also a public speaker on the subject of Palestine\, theology\, feminism and community organizing. Her practice extends to design and filmmaking. Notably\, she is the designer behind prominent social justice campaigns that have shaped our understanding of recent history like: #Ferguson2Palestine\, #ISupportRasmea and #ShowMe15. In film\, she was one of the founders of the film industry in Jordan\, wrote and directed multiple short films\, finished residency programs by Sundance Film Institute\, Dubai Film Connection\, and Euromed Audiovisual Program. Most notably\, she was the co-writer of the most watched Jordanian comedy series! Suhad currently resides in San Francisco\, CA. https://suhadkhatib.com/
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lee-scheingold-lecture-in-poetry-and-poetics-naomi-shihab-nye-and-lena-tuffaha/
LOCATION:UW – Intellectual House\, 4249 Whitman Ct NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200228T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200228T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20200226T013136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T013136Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Tahat\, Chavez\, & Friend
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Spin Cycle Records\, Movies\, and Games for a reading featuring poets Dujie Tahat\, Sarah A. Chavez\, and Malcolm Friend. \nDUJIE TAHAT is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington state. He is the author of Here I Am O My God\, selected by Fady Joudah for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY\, Sugar House Review\, The Journal\, The Southeast Review\, ZYZZVA\, Southern Indiana Review\, 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.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poetry-reading-tahat-chavez-friend/
LOCATION:Spin Cycle\, 321 Broadway E Ste C\, Seattle\, WA\, 98102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20200116T022859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T024901Z
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SUMMARY:A Winter's Evening of Music\, Poetry and Storytelling: From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy\nA Winter’s Evening of Music\, Poetry and Storytelling with Claudia Castro Luna\, Michelle Dodson\, Hilary Field\, Merna Ann Hecht & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. \nWeaving together original music and poetry\, classical guitarist and composer Hilary Field with poets Claudia Castro Luna and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha will share poems about struggle and their means to survive. Storyteller Merna Ann Hecht and cellist Michelle Dodson will offer stories and music with the theme of bringing hope forth in dark times with a selection little known traditional and contemporary stories. Through music and spoken word\, these writers and musicians share the nuanced beauty and vulnerability that can be found in our hearts at times of sorrow and difficulty as in times of joy\, this heightened taking place as it does on the day that commemorates the life\, work\, and example of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \nThis event is supported by a generous grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-winters-evening-of-music-poetry-and-storytelling-from-struggle-to-survival-creating-beauty-out-of-tragedy/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191219T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191219T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20191125T122120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191218T035522Z
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SUMMARY:Margin Shift Presents: Gordon\, Khalaf-Tuffaha\, Abel\, Felix\, Humienik
DESCRIPTION:MS Presents: Gordon\, Khalaf-Tuffaha\, Abel\, Felix\, Humienik\n\n\n\n\nMargin Shift: Friends in Poetry is a Seattle based poetry collective that’s constantly shifting. We highlight poets of color\, LGBTQI poets\, poets from out of town\, poets who are new to town\, women poets\, undocumented poets\, experimental writers (whatever that might mean!)\, and brand new writers. Always changing\, always shifting\, always trying something different.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/margin-shift-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Common AREA Maintenance\, 2125 2nd Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191129T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20191218T034109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191226T115410Z
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SUMMARY:Reading with Kaveh Akbar\, Paige Lewis\, Billie Swift & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Reading with Kaveh Akbar\, Paige Lewis\, Billie Swift\n & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\n\n\nNovember 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm\n\n\n\nJoin us at Hugo House for a reading featuring Kaveh Akbar\, Paige Lewis\, Billie Swift\, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha! Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, Paris Review\, Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. His second full-length volume of poetry\, Pilgrim Bell\, will be published by Graywolf in 2021. His debut\, Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, is out now. Kaveh was born in Tehran\, Iran\, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low residency MFA programs at Randolph…
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/offsite-at-hugo-house-reading-with-kaveh-akbar-paige-lewis-billie-swift-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20191021T085518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T090247Z
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SUMMARY:Hugo Fellows 2018–19 Final Reading
DESCRIPTION:The 2018–2019 Hugo Fellows will read from the projects they’ve worked on throughout the fellowship year with help from Hugo House staff\, instructors\, and guest speakers. Hear new work from Courtney Bird\, Emily Dhatt\, Anis Gisele\, Kim Kent\, Katrina Otuonye\, and Dujie Tahat. \nYou can read more about the Hugo Fellows and their projects here. \nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/hugo-fellows/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20191021T062305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T085505Z
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SUMMARY:Write Our Democracy: Writers Respond
DESCRIPTION:Join Write Our Democracy and Hugo House for an event elevating voices in a time when so many are being silenced. On this night\, writers and artists will respond to our political infrastructure\, constructing\, erasing\, and writing over documentation that grounds systems of oppression. This event celebrates free speech and provides a base for all artists seeking ways to interact and speak out for a compassionate and just democracy. Featured artists include Dujie Tahat\, Catalina Cantú\, Raúl Sánchez\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, and Kristiana Kahakauwila. \nInitially an international protest to the 2016 Inauguration\, Write Our Democracy has since been dedicated to promoting the importance of the spoken word and writing as activism in a time when freedom of speech and the humanities have been under threat of constraint. Each reading in the series focuses on how literature can contribute to a community of liberation through language and truth. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/write-our-democracy/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190927T022518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191027T061745Z
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SUMMARY:Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration \nwith Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\nPlease join Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha as they celebrate their new chapbooks—Everything Here and Letters from the Interior—and the poetry\, conversations\, and communities that sustain their work. \nBillie Swift lives in Seattle\, Washington\, where she is the owner and operator of Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She received an MFA in poetry from the Rainer Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. \n  \n  \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha has lived the experiences of first-generation American\, immigrant\, and expatriate. Her heritage is Palestinian\, Jordanian\, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English\, and has academic proficiency in French. She has lived in and traveled across the Arab world\, and many of her poems are inspired by the experience of crossing cultural\, geographic and political borders\, borders between languages\, between the present and the living past. \n  \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/call-when-you-have-a-minute/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191024T184500
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20191021T061647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T062016Z
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SUMMARY:Poet Salon Podcast - Lit Crawl 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks. In each episode\, co-hosts Gabrielle Bates\, Luther Hughes\, and Dujie Tahat answer a question from the audience and then interview a poet they love about some of the issues\, challenges\, and delights of being a poet today. Recent guests include Hanif Abdurraqib\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, Ross Gay\, and Danez Smith. Who will grace Lit Crawl? Find out! Connect on Facebook > \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nDujie Tahat is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington state. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review\, Nashville Review\, The Southeast Review\, Shenandoah\, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from the Richard Hugo House and Jack Straw Writing Program. He serves as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohosts The Poet Salon podcast. He got his start as a Seattle Poetry Slam Finalist\, a collegiate grand slam champion\, and Seattle Youth Speaks Grand Slam Champion\, representing Seattle at HBO’s Brave New Voices.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lit-crawl-2019/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191020T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191020T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
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SUMMARY:Jack Straw Group Reading - including Samar Abulhassan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday October 20th at 5 pm for an evening of poetry and prose with the 2019 Jack Straw Writing Fellows: Samar Abulhassan\, Christianne Balk\, Gabrielle Bates\, Shankar Narayan\, Sylvia Byrne Pollack\, Rena Priest\, Michael Schmeltzer \n—- \nSamar Abulhassan holds an M.F.A. from Colorado State University and has worked as a teaching artist for ten years\, for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ WITS Program\, Jack Straw\, and the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. \nBorn to Lebanese immigrants and raised with multiple languages\, she is a 2006 Hedgebrook alum and the author of multiple chapbooks\, including Farah and Nocturnal Temple. \nShe received a 2016 CityArtist grant to complete a novel-in-poems\, reflecting on memory\, longing\, and the Arabic alphabet\, ignited while exploring Pike Place Market and Seattle’s waterfront. \n  \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/jack-straw-group-reading-including-samar-abulhassan/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190522T105830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T110710Z
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SUMMARY:Naomi Shihab Nye at Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s latest collection\, The Tiny Journalist\, is a collection inspired by seven-year-old Janna Tamimi\, the “Youngest Journalist in Palestine\,” who captured videos of anti-occupation protests with her mother’s smartphone. \nNaomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a “wandering poet.” She has spent 40 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis\, Jerusalem\, and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage\, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas\, and her experiences traveling in Asia\, Europe\, Canada\, Mexico\, and the Middle East\, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity. – Steven Barclay Agency \n  \nThursday\, September 19\, 2019 7:30 pm at Town Hall Seattle \nTickets go on sale July 15th!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/naomi-shihab-nye/
LOCATION:Town Hall\, 1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190605T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190605T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190524T021452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190524T022645Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Translation
DESCRIPTION:** Curated in partnership with Claudia Castro Luna\, Washington State Poet Laureate! ** \nThe Poetry in Translation reading series showcases the literary traditions of Seattle’s immigrant and Native communities by sharing these groups’ poetry and song in their original languages and in their equivalent English translation. This quarterly series aims to inspire and broaden the city’s literary scene. It is a celebration of the poetries\, literary traditions and cultural contributions these communities make toward Seattle’s quality of life. \nThis episode will feature multilingual readings by poets alongside video poem screenings. \n\n\nParticipating poets:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha\n\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. Her first book\, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press) won the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry. Her first chapbook\, Arab in Newsland\, won the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize. Her forthcoming chapbook\, Letters from the Interior\, will be published this fall. In 2017-18\, she served as inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books\n\n\n\n\n\nand\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHanan Diriye\n\n\nHanan Diriye is a filmmaker\, organizer\, and poet.\n\n\n\n  \nTickets available here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4218899
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/nwff-poetry-in-translation/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190603T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190603T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190419T110202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T110453Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Arts and Lectures:  Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:This is a reading by Solmaz Sharif. \nSharif is the author of the poetry collection LOOK\, a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award and the winner of the 2017 American Book Award for Poetry. \nSharif’s LOOK\, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems\, lists\, shards\, and sequences\, Sharif assembles her family’s and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day\, in the grief for those killed in America’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq\, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poetry-sharif-sal/
LOCATION:Broadway Performance Hall\, 1625 Broadway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Arts & Lectures":MAILTO:sal@lectures.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190517T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190517T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190501T233130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T233546Z
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SUMMARY:Convergence in Verse: Da’\, Laser\, Rivera\, Schlegel\, and Tahat
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading of five poets—Laura Da’\, Jessica Laser\, Rob Schlegel\, Dujie Tahat\, and Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera—who are gathering at the crossroads of language\, geography\, community\, and self. \n  \nDujie Tahat is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington state. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review\, Nashville Review\, The Southeast Review\, Shenandoah\, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from the Richard Hugo House and Jack Straw Writing Program. He serves as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohosts The Poet Salon podcast. He got his start as a Seattle Poetry Slam Finalist\, a collegiate grand slam champion\, and Seattle Youth Speaks Grand Slam Champion\, representing Seattle at HBO’s Brave New Voices.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/convergence-in-verse/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190425T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T122010
CREATED:20190418T034738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T034825Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Rajaa Gharbi
DESCRIPTION:Rajaa Gharbi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRajaa Gharbi\, a longtime member of the Academy of American Poets\, a member of the American Translators Association and PoetsWest\, has just released a new poetry book titled Men Aghani Aljousoor (Songs of Bridges) -Selected Poems Translated to Arabic\, and Related Paintings. Translated by its author\, introduced with an extensive study by Tunisian writer and linguistics scholar Dr. Fatma Lakhdhar\, and published in Tunisia by multiple award winner Med Ali Editions\, the book was nominated for Tunisia’s 2018 National Book Translation Award. \nPlease note\, this event was originally scheduled to take place at Gallery 110 on March 28th\, but has been moved to Rajaa Gharbi’s Gallery on April 25th. \nFree admission.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/rajaa-gharbi-poetry/
LOCATION:Rajaa Gharbi’s Gallery\, 4425 41st Ave SW\, Seattle\, WA\, 98116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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