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Friday, May 14 • 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Her Story Is: in English and Arabic

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Hear beautiful poems in English and Arabic, celebrate contemporary women's stories from across the Arabic speaking world, learn about cross-cultural collaboration, and explore how poetry-in-translation brings writers together across the boundaries of nations in this lively, dynamic, group reading. Members of the Her Story Is collective will share poems from their exciting anthology project and will share key lessons from the translation process which transformed and improved their own creative work. Q&A to follow.

Link to recording:  https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/bbrK7rCmpI7yb-Rd0mFP_DO3Q76RC5qKkIYP5CIbwUJMj28VZARY0dq4C1doGWTU.6bwEYmOZPuPkKDXMM
Speakers
avatar for Kirun Kapur

Kirun Kapur

Kirun Kapur's collections include Women in the Waiting Room, a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, which won the Antivenom Poetry Award. Her work’s appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, and Prairie Schooner. She’s an editor for the Beloit Poetry... Read More →
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Jennifer Jean

Program Manager, 24PearlStreet Online Writing Program at FAWC
Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ and The Fool, as well as Object Lesson which is about sex-trafficking and objectification in America. Her teaching resource is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry and she's a co-editor and co-translator of an anthology in development... Read More →
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Dima AlBasha

Insurance, Coveyres
Dima AlBasha is from Aleppo, Syria. Since coming to the United States, she has become a promoter of interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding; and, she’s given a TEDx talk which bridges gaps between people of different cultures and perspectives. Dima is a translator for... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
Online
  Group Reading

Attendees (58)