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December, 2023
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POP: Contemporary Palestinian Poetry with Susan Muaddi Darraj
Date:
December 21st, 2023.
Time:
7:00 PM
Location:
virtual
Contact:
Barb Jennes, barbjennes@gmail.com
Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuGgpz0pHdx0KYbGxYTw0MONPnU0-RO1
Connecticut Poetry Society presents Special Poets on Poetry
Explore a selection of contemporary Palestinian poems. Discussion and Q&A will follow. Presenter Susan Muaddi Darraj, an award-winning writer of books for adults and children and recipient of an American Book Award and two Arab American Book Awards. Darraj lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins. Her novel, Behind You Is the Sea, will be published in January.
Part 2 will feature Contemporary Israeli Poetry with Rachel Neve-Midbar on Jan. 21, 2024.
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