Free Author Reading with Award-Winning poet and translator Safa Khatib followed by Community Open Mic

More about Safa Khatib's book, A Dress of Locusts:

An electrifying debut collection exploring language and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent.
Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back  and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib journeys across the  possibilities of language and self, asking us to dwell in the thresholds  between the 'old' and the 'new'.

About the author:

Safa Khatib is a poet, translator, and teacher. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Words Without Borders, The Baffler, The Kenyon Review and The White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry, among other institutions. In a review of her first book, A Dress of Locusts, the critic Dan Coates writes that she offers meditations on desire, faith and the ancient continuities between the so-called "West" and "Middle East". 

If you would like to read at the open mic, please send an email to driftlesswritingcenter@gmail.com with the subject line: IN-PERSON OPEN MIC, and include your name and contact information. Please prepare to read no more than 5 minutes of material.

Friday, September 18, 7-9pm

@ Vernon County Museum, 410 S Center Ave, Viroqua, WI 54665

Free and open to the public