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indigena x whitenoise: Almontaser / Abraham / Gabriel / Tbakhi / Worfeley
April 10, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
FreePlease join Indigena Collective and whitenoise project, as we celebrate the recent releases by Threa Almontaser (The Wild Fox of Yemen) and George Abraham (Birthright)!
April 10, 2021
4pm PST / 7pm EST
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocuCqrT8rEtfqjTWuefccHlqtK4VOjGhZ
FEATURING:
Threa Almontaser
George Abraham
Maryam Imam Gabriel
Fargo Tbakhi
Fatmah Worfeley
Threa Almontaser is the author of the poetry collection, THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN (Graywolf Press, 2021) selected by Harryette Mullen for the Walt Whitman Award from The Academy of American Poets. She is the recipient of awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright program, and elsewhere, and is at work on her first novel.
George Abraham is a Palestinian american poet and writer from Jacksonville, FL. Their debut collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and The Boston Foundation, and winner of the 2017 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational’s Best Poet title. Their work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Baffler, The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, Abraham currently teaches at Emerson College, and will be a Litowitz MA+MFA Candidate at Northwestern University in the fall.
Maryam Imam Gabriel, aka Ihsan (they/she) is a non-binary Egyptian poet and performer. Maryam un-teaches history at Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland, OR. Ihsan has also performed Arabic-English drag in Portland under the moniker Baba Yusef. Baba has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from CUNY and an MA in Consciousness Studies from Goddard College. Maryam grew up working-class and immigrated to the United States in high school. Ihsan is writing their first poetry collection currently under the working title Home’s a Howl (2021).
Fargo Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian-American performance artist. His writing can be found in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, the Shallow Ends, Mizna, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, and elsewhere. Find more at fargotbakhi.com.
Fatmah Worfeley (she & her) is a youth educator and organizer for youth of color. In her free time, she cooks, dances and cuddles her cats. Fatmah is an eldest daughter to immigrant parents of Libyan and Palestinian heritage. You can find her on Instagram as @afrikanxarab.
Indigena Collective and whitenoise project are both reading series and platforms centering marginalized creatives in the community, including but not limited to BIPOC, QTPOC, and people with disabilities.