About this Event
Indran Amirthanayagam and Zeina Azzam read from their poetry, followed by a brief open mic. In person at Compass Art Center - 10335 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, Maryland, USA but also available remotely on Zoom --- https://bit.ly/3YNwHg.
Indran Amirthanayagam, poet, editor,
publisher, translator, and diplomat, has published 24
books of poetry in various languages, most recently
Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner's Almanac
(Spuyten Duyvil). He edits the Beltway Poetry
Quarterly and has received fellowships from the New
York Foundation for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony,
and more. Indran hosts The Poetry Channel,
(https://youtube.com/user/indranam) and publishes
at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com).
See also https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com.
Zeina Azzam, current Poet Laureate of
Alexandria, VA, is a Palestinian American writer,
editor, and community activist. Nominated twice for
the Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in
literary journals, webzines, and anthologies and been
collected in the books, Some Things Never Leave You
(2023) and Bayna Bayna, In-Between (2021). She
volunteers as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a
writing program for youth in Gaza, and holds an M.A.
in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.
See also www.zeinaazzam.com.
Event Venue
Online
USD 0.00
