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The Poetry Box LIVE — April Edition

Online N/A, Portland

The Poetry Box LIVE – April Edition April 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading series on the 2nd Saturday of each month and hosted by Shawn Aveningo Sanders. APRIL Featured Poets: • Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon), author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN • Sally Naylor (Florida), author of SYNAPSE FLIES INTO STARTLE • David Belmont (New York), author of WORLD GONE ZOOM ------- ABOUT THE FEATURED POETS ---------- Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several books of poetry, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt and most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in…

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indigena x whitenoise: Almontaser / Abraham / Gabriel / Tbakhi / Worfeley

Online N/A, Portland

Please 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…

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