BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:33112@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240713T210000 DTSTAMP:20240626T022224Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/weaving-a-world-arabic-poetry-in-tr anslation/ SUMMARY:Weaving a World: Arabic Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 13 · 7 - 9pm PDT\n\nBeyond Baroque and The Mar kaz Review is proud to present Weaving a World: Arabic Poetry in Translati on. Titled after the Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al -Raddi's poem\, Weaving a World\, the evening of readings in The Wanda Coleman features authors Zein a Hashem Beck\, Zêdan Xelef\, and Maya Salameh. This event is part of the Poetry Coalition's slate of programs in the spring and summer that reflec t the transformative impact poetry has on individual readers and communiti es across the nation\, and is made possible (in part) by the Academy of Am erican Poets with support from the Mellon Foundation.\n\nThe event also in cludes a fundraiser for the Sudan Solidarity Fund organized by the Sudan S olidarity Collective\, a volunteer-based group based in Toronto providing relief efforts in those parts of Sudan that have been hardest hit by milit arised state violence. To Dontate directly\, please click here.\n\nEnjoy a reception before and after the readings.\n\nDoors Open: 6:30 PM I Reading s: 7:00 PM\n\nZeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third poetry colle ction\, titled O\, was published by Penguin Books in July 2022. It won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for poetry and was named a Best Book 2022 b y Lit Hub and The New York Public Library. Her second full-length collecti on\, Louder than Hearts(Bauhan Publishing 2017)\, won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye wrote about this book\, “Everything Arabic we treasure comes alive in these poems. Readers will feel restored to so many homes\, revived\, amazed. Zeina Hashem Beck write s with a brilliant\, absolutely essential voice.” Zeina is also the auth or of two chapbooks: 3arabi Song (Rattle 2016)\, selected from 1720 manusc ripts as winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize\, and There Was and How Much There Was (smith|doorstop 2016)\, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy\, who pra ised her “remarkable gift for storytelling” in this pamphlet rich with women’s voices. Her first book\, To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Pres s 2014)\, centered on Beirut\, won the 2013 Backwaters Prize.\n\nZêdan Xe lef is a poet\, translator\, organizer\, and archivist. They grew up in th e Yazidi community of Shingal Mountains where they herded four goats with three other cousins. They are the co-creator of Tew Tew\, an oral history and oral traditions archive with a mission to preserve the endangered Yazi di oral traditions in response to the Yazidi genocide. They’re the write r of A Barcode Scanner (Kashkul Books 2021/Gato Negro Ediciones 2022) and co-editor and co-translator of the upcoming Something Missing from This Wo rld: Contemporary Yazidi Poetry (Deep Vellum\, August 2024). Photo by Rae Rad.\n\nMaya Salameh is a Syrian- and Lebanese-American poet from San Dieg o\, California. She is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICRO WAVE (University of Arkansas Press\, 2022)\, winner of the Etel Adnan Poet ry Prize and finalist for the California Book Award\, as well as the chapb ook rooh(Paper Nautilus Press\, 2020). Her poems have appeared in POETRY\, The Rumpus\, AGNI\, ANMLY\, Asian American Writer’s Workshop\, and the LA Times\, among others. She has performed her work at Carnegie Hall\, the DeYoung Museum\, and her mother's kitchen.\n\nAbout the Markaz Review\n\n The Markaz Review (TMR) is a nonprofit publication and virtual center that seeks to promote the writers\, artists\, filmmakers and other creative pe ople of the greater Middle East\, generally thought to include the Arab wo rld\, Iran\, Turkey\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan and North Africa. As an onlin e community\, TMR is a creative and literary destination that seeks to era se the boundaries between peoples and celebrate culture.\n\nThis event is Free &\; In-Person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are encouraged while inside our center.\n\nEvent attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events\, virtual or otherwise\, if they are not respecting the space\, fellow attendees\, or performers.\n\nBecause t his is a free event seating is limited. Please arrive early.\n\nLivestream : If you can’t join us in-person the event will be livestreamed on Beyon d Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event. 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