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2023 DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium Reading
Jun
22
6:00 PM18:00

2023 DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium Reading

As a fellow in DreamYard's 2023 Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, I’m reading a couple of my poems on Thursday, June 22, 2023 from 6:00-7:00pm ET online over Zoom along with 10 amazing poets. Hosted by Ellen Hagan and Andy Powell, the public fellows reading is the culmination of two days of a generative and transformative poetry intensive for emerging poets who center community in their work, both on and off the page.

If you’re able to attend in-person in NYC, please join the program at DreamYard Art Center (1085 Washington Ave, Bronx, NY 10456).

Please join us by registering here.

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An Assembly of Moths: Afghanistan, One Year Later
Aug
25
12:00 PM12:00

An Assembly of Moths: Afghanistan, One Year Later

An Assembly of Moths: Afghanistan One Year Later

A Gathering Through Art

Streamed live August 25, 2022 at 12pm EDT.

Featured artists include: filmmaker Ali Baluch, violinists Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, rabab player Qais Essar, poet Seelai Karzai, dancer Parul Shah, interdisciplinary artist Zelikha Shoja, poet Liala Zaray, and more.

August 15, 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of the precipitous events in Afghanistan. The Afghan American Artists & Writers Association (AAAWA), in collaboration with City Lore, presents a gathering of Afghan and Afghan American artists and friends to reflect on this moment and to collectively affirm our humanity, preservation, and imagination through music, poetry, visual art, and dance. We come together in community and for community. We come together out of love and grief, and yet more love. We assemble with the ferocity of moths toward that which is most luminous and most enduring.

The event is free, though we welcome donations to support AAAWA’s work in advocating for and amplifying the work of artists of Afghan heritage.

Assembly of Moths takes its title from a poem of the same name by Khalilullah Khalili. The poster was designed by Mohammad Sabir.

Watch the full event here.

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"The Witness of Poetry" Generative Workshop at ASU's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference [Online]
Feb
20
3:45 PM15:45

"The Witness of Poetry" Generative Workshop at ASU's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference [Online]

In his “The Witness of Poetry,” the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz reflects on the idea of poetry as both a “participant and witness” in “the major transformations of our time” and that poetry “witnesses us.” This hour-long generative workshop will introduce you first to the poetics and poetry of witness. Then, we will discuss the themes of displacement, war trauma, gender, and sexual identities in selected poems and audio clips. Finally, through a generative exercise and a writing prompt, we will write poems that 'witness us.’

Learn more about entire 2-day conference schedule and register here.

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