Virtual Poetry Reading: Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Mbarek Sryfi, Octavia McBride-Ahebee

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Jeffrey Ethan Lee‘s first poetry book, invisible sister, was a finalist for the
MMM Press Book Prize. His second book, identity papers, was a finalist for
the Colorado Book Award. His novel, The Autobiography of Somebody Else,
was published by White Pine Press. He won the Sow’s Ear Poetry Press Prize
and the Seven Kitchens Press prizes for poetry chapbooks, and he has
published other poetry chapbooks with Ashland Poetry Press and Moonstone
Press. Poems and prose have been published in APR, North American Review,
Xconnect, etc.

Mbarek Sryfi, poet and translator, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems, co-authored
Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film and co-translator of
several books. His work has been widely published in many journals and
anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, CELAAN Review,
Metamorphoses, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African
Studies, Translation Review, and World Literature Today.

Octavia McBride-Ahebee‘s work presents human relationships within the
context of global inequality. She is the author of Assuming Voices, Where My
Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. Her work has
appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Rigorous, For
Harriet, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace, Yellow
Medicine, Damazine; A Literary Journal of the Muslim World, Fingernails
Across The Chalkboard: Poetry And Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black
Diaspora, Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer and others.