Border Wisdom: a poetry reading and discussion with Ahmad Almallah

Monday, September 16, 2024

4-5:30pm

Lutnick Library 200

Huda J. Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). 

Ahmad Almallah is a poet from Palestine. His first book of poems Bitter English is now available in the Phoenix Poets Series from the University of Chicago Press. His new book Border Wisdom is now available from Winter Editions. He received the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems “Recourse,” won the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship.

Contact: gha [at] haverford.edu + mcinern [at] haverford.edu

Organized by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities’ Poetry Reading Group.