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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/chautauqua-literary-and-scientific-
 circle-the-wild-fox-of-yemen-with-threa-almontaser/
SUMMARY:Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle – The Wild Fox of Yemen
  with Threa Almontaser
DESCRIPTION:Online Event\nThe winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Acade
 my of American Poets\, The Wild Fox of Yemen won both the 2021 Maya Angelo
 u Book Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\, among o
 ther distinctions.\n\nThrea Almontaser’s debut collection of poems asks 
 how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love le
 tter to the country and people of Yemen\, a portrait of young Muslim woman
 hood in New York after 9/11\, and an extraordinarily composed examination 
 of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before\, Alm
 ontaser’s polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds\, rep
 urposing language and adapting to the space between cultures.\n\nDuring a 
 week when we will turn our focus to the global south for what we have too 
 often overlooked or misunderstood from these parts of the world\, we will 
 consider\, through The Wild Fox of Yemen and Almontaser’s presentation\,
  the role of language and what is beyond the limits of the American imagin
 ation.\n\nThrea Almontaser is the author of the debut poetry collection Th
 e Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press 2021)\, nominated for the National Boo
 k Awards and winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American
  poets\, the Maya Angelou Book Award\, the Brooklyn Public Library Literar
 y Prize\, and the Arab American Book Award. She is a recipient of writing 
 fellowships from Duke University and the Fulbright Program. She earned her
  MFA from North Carolina State University and teaches English to immigrant
 s and refugees in her area.
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CATEGORIES:Literary Discussion,Literature
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