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Outsider Poets read at 6 p.m. FREE |
December 9, 2008 Berkeley Poetry Review, 7 p.m. Heller Room, University of California, Berkeley |
Wiliford A Thursday Feb 12 3rd Floor R190. A Reading in Celebration of the VONA Workshop. (Elmaz Abinader, David Mura, Willie Perdomo, Faith Adiele) This reading features the faculty of the VONA Voices Workshop, a writer's conference for writers of color taught by writers of color. Once part of the Hurston-Wright Writers Week, VONA is unique in its interracial and interethnic focus and has become a crucial and necessary institution for emerging writers of color. The writers on this panel represent a wide array of traditions, histories, and identities. They are border crossers whose vantage point is both local and global. They will speak about VONA's creation of a community for writers of color and will read from their own celebrated work. Continental A 4:30 Lobby Level R195. Inclined to Speak: Arab American Poets Reading. (Philip Metres, Khaled Mattawa, Hayan Charara, Elmaz Abinader, Fady Joudah, Deema Shehabi) In celebration of the publication of Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry, six Arab American poets—Elmaz Abinader, Hayan Charara, Fady Joudah, Khaled Mattawa, Philip Metres, and Deema Shehabi—read from the anthology and their latest works, engaging in the questions of being Arab and American in a post 9/11 world. |
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