In times of political upheaval, displacement and erasure, writing becomes a powerful tool of resistance. Join Uyghur poet and memoirist Tahi...
Radu Vancu, and moderator Nancy Naomi Carlson at the #worldvoicesfestival for “Dialogues: Poetry in Conversation,” a @PENworldvoices convers...
Zafer Senocak will be reading from his poetry collection (First Light)
translated from the Turkish by Kristin Dickinson
and I'll be reading...
Culture, literature, and storytelling can have a significant impact on shaping a child’s identity in their early years, and powerfully affec...
Dunya Mikhail will read from her work Tablets: Secrets of the Clay. This event is Presented by Her Story Is and the Center for Arabic Cultur...
In DUNYA MIKHAIL’s The Bird Tattoo: A Novel, a young Yazidi woman’s life is changed forever when her husband, a journalist, goes missing, an...
Rutgers University
series of events featuring scholars, poets, and musicians as they reflect on the devastating legacy of the US invasion and occupation of Ira...
Rutgers University
Colombia University
20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we commemorate the suffering and honor the perseverance of the Iraqi community with a panel of dis...
Colombia University
Zoom
An evening of poetry with Carolyn Forché, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Ocean Vuong, and Ru Freeman (moderator). This event was the capst...
Zoom
Newberry Library, Chicago
From the US “Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” Surviving the Long Wars explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our...
Newberry Library, Chicago
Open Book 1011 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Featuring artists of the Her Story is Collective and Poet Dunya Mikhail
Open Book 1011 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55415
These 2 writers discuss their new novels
These 2 writers discuss their new novels
launch of Dunya Mikhail's novel The Bird Tattoo
launch of Dunya Mikhail's novel The Bird Tattoo
Laureates Dunya Mikhail and Helen Al-Janabi Maestro Karim Wasfi
UNESCO headquarters, Paris
Laureates Dunya Mikhail and Helen Al-Janabi Maestro Karim Wasfi
discussion on modern poetry in MENA
Register below. #DCArabLitFest https://mei.swoogo.com/dcarabliterature
discussion on modern poetry in MENA
featuring Aaron Hughes, Dunya Mikhail, Maestro Karim Wasfi
featuring Aaron Hughes, Dunya Mikhail, Maestro Karim Wasfi
Featuring Ani Gjika and Dunya Mikhail
Featuring Ani Gjika and Dunya Mikhail
2021
Symposium on Translation + Bilingual Poetry Reading, Nov. 12, University of Michigan
Webinar, Iraq, war, and corporeality, Sept. 7, 11 am (Est. time), Center for Comparative Literature
Bila Hudood (Without Boundaries) literary festival, virtual, July 9-11
Poetry reading, Women Forward International, 10:15 am, June 10
Detroit Women’s Forum, discussion on “The Beekeeper”, 12 pm, May 21
Towson University, Maryland, March 3rd, 7 pm Est time, virtual event
Oakland University, Center for Public Humanities, Feb 16, 6:30 pm Est time, virtual event
2020
Poetry Foundation, Poetry Off Shelf, Chicago, May 7, 2020
The Skirball Cultural Center with Ilya Kaminsky, LA, March 25, 2020
The Holocaust Memorial Center, MI, February 16 at 2:30 PM
2019
Maurice Brown Memorial Poetry Reading at Oakland University, @ 5pm, Oct 22, 2019
August 8 @ 6pm, Pages Bookstore, Detroit, MI
July 8, Pittsburgh, PA @7pm-8:30pm, Art of Translation Series
April 29-May 5, Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney, Australia
https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2019/
2018
March 10, AWP conference, four poets in conversation, Tampa, Florida
March 18, Arab American National Museum, al-Muttanabbi anniversary
March 23, Arab American National Museum, Global Fridays with Jessica Moore
April 6, Clemson University, South Carolina
April 10, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
April 11, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
April 17-20, World Voices Festival, New York
May 2, with Adam Zagajewski, 92Y Street, New York
May 3, bilingual reading with Max Weiss and conversation with Deborah Amos, Princeton University
August 6, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington State
August 8, Language Institute, Monterey, CA
September 16, Brooklyn Book Festival, NY
September 20-21, WLA Conference, Colorado
September 24, The University of Tennessee, TN
October 11, Rochester Hills Public Library
October 18, First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, MI
October 19, North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, MI
October 30, Words Without Borders Gala
2017
Oxford University, UK, October 21
Wittenberg University, Ohio, November 14
2015
Voices of urgency, Paris, October 21-25, with Brian Turner
The heart of the matter, New York, Oct. 13 with Robyn Creswell
Poetry Workshop and reading, City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, July 30-August 2, 2015
March 6, Arab American National Museum
February 18, Oklahoma City University (with Brian Turner)
January 29, Rockhurst University, Kansas city, MO, Mabee Theater, Sedgwick Hall
Aprill 11, Poets House @ AWP, MN (with Mohja Kahf and Farzaneh Milani)
2014
Split this Rock, Washington DC, March 27-30, 2014
2013
International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, Nov 2013
2012
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, October 10, 2012
Franklin and Marshall College, Philadelphia, April 5, 2012
Henry Ford Community College, March 22, 2012
2011
Women, War, and Peace, Oct. 20, 2011
Wayne State University, MI, March 4, 2011
Yavapai College, Arizona, Feb. 11, 2011
Museum of Modern Art, NY, February 3, 2011
2010 and earlier
Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival October 7-10, 2010, Newark, NJ
Conflict and Community, lectures Oct 5-6, Saginaw Valley State University, MI
Shambaugh House July 18, 2010, University of Iowa, Iowa
RAWI Conference June, 5, 2010, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Unterberg Poetry Center, 92Y Street
Reading: Dunya Mikhail and Louise Gluck
The Kennedy UnionWorcester State College
University of Winnipeg, Canada
Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam
Northeastern University, Boston
The American University, Washington DC
Georgetown University, Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
University of North CarolinaAdirondack Community College
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