Wednesday September 25, 2019 – 7pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

“Mother Tongue” – Both poets grew up with another first language

Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems Bitter English will be out this September. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing. His set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship.

Olga Livshin is a poet and literary translator, and author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman. Her previous work has been recognized by CALYX journal’s Lois Cranston Memorial Prize, and she is co-founder of From Across the Waters, a reading series devoted to immigration.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Following