This Afternoon: Mahmood Darwish Tribute
Please join us for a tribute to celebrate the poetry and life of
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008):
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008):
Sunday, October 5, 1.30 – 3.30 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York City
subway: B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette; 6 to Bleecker St.
308 Bowery, New York City
subway: B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette; 6 to Bleecker St.
With readings and words and memories from Breyten Breytenbach, Pierre Joris, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Chuck Wachtel, Farah Ghniem, Ghassan Nasr, Danae Elon, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Ala Alryyes, Ammiel Alcalay, and Archipelago Books.
Zafer Tawil will perform on the oud. Refreshments will be served.
Admission free
Become a child, that I might see my face in your mirror.
Are you me
and I you?
Teach me poetry that I might elegize you now now now
as you elegize me.
—Mahmoud Darwish
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