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Virtual: UA Press Author Spotlight

Danielle Badra: "Like We Still Speak"

2022-04-05 18:00:00 2022-04-05 19:00:00 America/Chicago Virtual: UA Press Author Spotlight Etel Adnan Poetry Prize winner, Danielle Badra, discusses her award winning book "Like We Still Speak". Fayetteville Public Library - Reference Zoom

Tuesday, April 05
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-04-05 18:00:00 2022-04-05 19:00:00 America/Chicago Virtual: UA Press Author Spotlight Etel Adnan Poetry Prize winner, Danielle Badra, discusses her award winning book "Like We Still Speak". Fayetteville Public Library - Reference Zoom

Etel Adnan Poetry Prize winner, Danielle Badra, discusses her award winning book "Like We Still Speak".

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others’ in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions. Badra invites the reader to engage in this communal space where she investigates inheritance, witnessing, intimacy, and survival.

 

Danielle Badra is a queer Arab American poet who was raised in Michigan and currently resides in Virginia, where she received an MFA from George Mason University. Like We Still Speak is her first full-length collection.

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AGE GROUP: | Virtual Adult | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

TAGS: | poetry |

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