Spoken Word Poetry - Workshop and Performance by Safia Elhillo, poet

Saturday, February 8, 2020
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM (ET)
VCAM VCAM 001 Screening Room
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Susan Penn
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Distinguished Visitors Program
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https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=84933

Workshop and Performance by Safia Elhillo, poet

Safia Elhillo is winner of the Sillerman First Book Award for African poets, Arab American Book Award, the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and 2019 Stanford University Wallace Stegner Fellowship Recipient. Elhillo is the author of The January Children, Nima on the Other Side, and Girls That Never Die, and co-editor of Halal If You Hear Me

Performance on Saturday, February 8  7:00-9:00 p.m.    Reception 6:30 p.m.
Haverford College VCAM screening room

Workshop on Friday, February 7  4:15-6:30 p.m.
Registration required:  email klindgre@haverford.edu or iarribas@brynmawr.edu for registration link
Bryn Mawr College Benham Gateway Conference Room  

Safia's books are available for purchase at the Bryn Mawr College bookstore and for purchase and signing at the Haverford College February 8 event.  

Sponsored by the Tri-Co Mellon Foundation Seed Grant, Haverford College Mark and Lillian Shapiro Speaking Initiative, Haverford College Distinguished Visitors Program, Haverford College Creative Writing, and the Bryn Mawr College Endowed Lecture Fund 

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