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SUMMARY:Singing Seattle: A Reading and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Singing Seattle: A Reading and Celebration \nThree authors read poetry and creative nonfiction that speaks to our moment\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Samina Najmi reads from her debut memoir-in-essays Sing Me A Circle: Love\, Loss\, and a Home in Time\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha from her award-winning poetry collection Something About Living\, and Kalehua Kim from her debut poetry collection Mele. The readings will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. \nFree admission to this event is made possible with support from 4Culture. \n\n\n\n\n\nSamina Najmi\nSamina Najmi is a professor of English at California State University\, Fresno. Her memoir-in-essays\, Sing Me a Circle: Love\, Loss\, and a Home in Time\, won the Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published Oct 1 by Trio House Press. It has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and is featured among Poets & Writers’ five creative nonfiction debuts of the year. Samina is enrolled part-time in Fresno State’s MFA program in creative nonfiction\, and this is keeping her humble. Daughter of multiple migrations\, Samina has lived in Fresno since 2006 and watched with wonder her children\, her students\, and her citrus grow. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist and translator. Her most recent book\, Something About Living (UAkron\, 2024)\, was listed as a 2025 notable book by the American Library Association\, and was winner of the 2024 National Book Award\, the 2025 Washington State Book Award\, and the 2025 Arab American Book Award. Something About Living will be published by the 87Press in the UK and Ireland\, where it is a finalist for the PEN Heaney Prize. She is also the author of Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House\, 2023)\, finalist for the Firecracker Prize\, and Water & Salt (Red Hen\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. Tuffaha’s writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, the Nation\, Poets.org\, and Prairie Schooner and in anthologies including The Long Devotion and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at the Baffler magazine. In 2024\, she was a guest editor for Words Without Borders where she curated the series Against Silence. For more about her work\, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKalehua Kim\nKalehua Kim is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Born of Hawaiian\, Chinese\, Filipino and Portuguese descent\, her multicultural background informs much of her work. A 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets\, her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest\, Denver Quarterly\, Calyx\, and ‘Ōiwi\, A Native Hawaiian Journal. As a recipient of the 2024 Trio House Press Editor’s Choice Prize\, her first collection of poems\, Mele\, was released byTrio House in 2025.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/singing-seattle-a-reading-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Hugo Literary Series 2022-23 Season
DESCRIPTION:Reincarnation: September 30\, 2022\, 7 pm\nFeaturing Omar El Akkad\, Lilliam Rivera\, Joshua Mohr\, and Brenna Bruce \n  \n“Every year\, Hugo House commissions new prose\, poetry\, and songs based on a writing prompt. During the Hugo Literary Series\, artists share the results. This year\, our artists will explore the theme re/birth to celebrate\, if not the end of the pandemic\, then at least some way of us living in the world with it\, and the revival/resurgence of creativity that has been dormant for two long years.”
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/hugo-literary-series-2022-23-season/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Clarion West Presents: A Reading by Amal El-Mohtar at Hugo House
DESCRIPTION:Join Hugo House and Clarion West Writers Workshop\nfor a reading by poet and fiction writer\, Amal El-Mohtar.\nAbout the Author: \nAmal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction\, poetry\, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com\, Fireside Fiction\, Lightspeed\, Uncanny\, Strange Horizons\, Apex\, Stone Telling\, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017)\, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016)\, Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014)\, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection\, The Honey Month (2010). Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times\, NPR Books\, and on Tor.com. – Hugo House \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/amal-el-mohtar/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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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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