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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200120T190000
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Poetry Series:  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. \n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2020839484846823/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1547763220270048
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poetry-sharif/
LOCATION:Broadway Performance Hall\, 1625 Broadway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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