Readers 2011 Poetry Series Featuring Deema Shehabi at Readers Cafe & Bookstore (California)

05 April 2011
Readers 2011 Poetry Series Featuring Deema Shehabi at Readers Cafe & Bookstore (California)
Date: 7 April 2011

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Location: Readers Cafe & Bookstore, Building C, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA


Join us for the Thursdays at Readers 2011 Poetry Series, featuring Deema Shehabi.

Enjoy specially priced drinks and snacks all while supporting the San Francisco Public Library. Curated and Hosted by Friends of the SFPL’s Poet-in-Residence, Jack Hirschman.

BIO

Palestinian writer Deema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon, a newly released volume of poetry (Press 53, March 2011). Her work has appeared widely in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Crab Orchard, The Massachusetts Review, and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab-American Poetry. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, French, and Farsi, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart prize four times.

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