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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Dilruba Ahmed\, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, J.C Todd\,
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83696541345?pwd=Y2RiWGwvbEpkc29YaUZBeEs0aFZBUT09  \nMeeting ID: 836 9654 1345\, Passcode: 739757\, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 \nDilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels. Her debut book of poetry\, Dhaka Dust\, won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and The New York Times Magazine. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019\, Halal If You Hear Me\, Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry\, and elsewhere. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. \nSham-e-Ali Nayeem is author of the poetry collection\, City of Pearls\, she is an Indian Muslim American poet\, artist and public interest lawyer of Hyderabadi descent. Her poetry has appeared in Apiary\, Dusie and Mizna\, and can be found in anthologies\, including Shattering the Stereotypes:\nMuslim Women Speak Out (Olive Branch Press\, 2005)\, Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak (Beacon Press\, 2005) and Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence (Seal Press\, 2008). Sham-e-Ali is the recipient of the Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship. \nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems (and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and various anthologies. With community partner Asian Arts Initiative\, she created Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. She has received scholarships from VONA and the Vermont Studio Center\, the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor’s Prize in Poetry\, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize\, and the Leeway Foundation's Transformation Award. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is originally from Bali\, Indonesia. \nJ. C. Todd’s recent work explores the traumatic effects of war on women. Her most recent books are Beyond Repair\, runner-up in the Able Muse Poetry Book Contest\, forthcoming in 2020\, and The Damages of Morning\, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Prize in Poetry and twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards\, she has held fellowships in poetry from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Bemis Center\, and elsewhere. Her work has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Paris Review\, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. She has taught in the Rosemont MFA Program and the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College. \nLarry Robin\, Host 
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