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N/evergreen: Arab/Indigenous Ecopoesis & Environmental Literatures

Virtual
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am

 

Pluralizing and problematizing simplistic notions of land/sky/water, womanist and queer/trans Palestinian and mixed-race Arab/Indigenous poets, non/fiction writers, performers, and editors examine the ways space and place shape and guide our work. Surfacing stories grounded in geohistory, this panel will discuss the connections between Nations and narration, bodies (of work) and the lands and waters from which they emerge, and decolonizing dialogues of ecopoetic and environmental literatures.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP22ArabIndigenoudEcopoesis_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, an NEA and Tulsa Artist Fellow, is the author of Archipiélagos, Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking, and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. He edited Yellow Medicine Review's global queer Indigenous issue and coedited Movement Research Performance Journal's Native issue.

Micaela Kaibni Raen is a Palestinian lesbian poet and nonfiction writer, community organizer and advocate, and international human rights activist. She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. Her work appears in Bint el Nas, Yellow Medicine Review, and The Poetry of Arab Women.

Amir Rabiyah is a librarian and author of the poetry book, Prayers for My 17th Chromosome. They coedited Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices. A VONA fellow, their writing appears in Sukoon; Feminist Formations and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.

feras hilal is a Brown queer Muslim Palestinian writer/performer living on Cahuilla land. They were a Radius of Arab American Writers and Los Angeles Review of Books writing workshop fellow. They are completing a speculative mixed-genre fiction/poetry project that imagines a liberated Palestine.

Janine Mogannam is a queer Palestinian librarian, writer, VONA alum, and member of Still Here San Francisco and Radius of Arab American Writers. She has performed at Split This Rock, Litquake, and National Queer Arts Festival and is published in Kweli, Dismantle, and Writing the Walls Down.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center