Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM
Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discuss poetry and read their poems. Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems, Bitter English will be published in 2019. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muhdathūn and co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning. Fatemeh Shams’ When They Broke Down the Door won the 2017 Latifeh Yarshater Annual Book Award. She received Jaleh Esfahani poetry award as the best young Persian poet in 2012. Her forthcoming poems will appear in the World of Literature Today, New Divan and Mirror of my Heart: 1000 years of Persian Women Poetry in 2019. Charles Carr, Host