EVENTS
July 29, 2023
NOMENCLATURES OF INVISIBILITY BOOK LAUNCH
Join Mahtem & friends for the LA book launch of Nomenclatures of Invisibility! Poetry reading, music, food & fun!
Hosted by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center | Register here
Beyond Baroque (618 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 9029) | 7:00pm
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June 8, 2023
READING WITH ADI MAGAZINE X KAYA PRESS
ADI Magazine and Kaya Press present an evening of new works from contributors to ADI Magazine’s Inagural volume, Omens. Readings by K-Ming Chang, Ruxandra Guidi, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Taz Ahmed, Mahtem Shiferraw, Jason Magabo Perez. MC’ed by D’Lo.
Hosted by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Beyond Baroque (618 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291) | 7:30pm - RSVP here
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April 24, 2023
READING & CONVERSATION
Reading and Conversation with BOA editor and publisher Peter Conners, hosted by Writers & Books and Ampersand Books
Virtual (zoom) | 4:30pm - Registration required
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March 11, 2023
BOA AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING
Nomenclature Book Signing hosted by BOA Editions Ltd.
AWP (Seattle) | 10:00am
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March 10, 2023
ANAPHORA ARTS & PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Reading & Conversation with various writers
AWP, Little Saigon (Seattle) | 6:00pm
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March 10, 2023
AWP PANEL: BIPOC WOMEN/NONBINARY WRITERS: CULTIVATING COMMUNITY AND SAFE WRITING SPACES
Conversation with Janaka Bowman-Lewis, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, and LaCoya Katoe Gessesse
AWP, Seattle Convention Center, Room 327 (Seattle) | 1:45:pm
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August 7, 2020
ADDIS ABABA NOIR LAUNCH
Reading & Conversation with Maaza Mengiste, Teferi Nigussie
Skylight Books (Virtual) | 6:30pm
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February 20, 2020
IMMIGRANT WRITING RESIDENCY
Reading & conversation with Kwame Dawes, Dunya Mikhail, Ilya Kaminsky, and Kaveh Akbar
Georgia Tech (Atlanta) | 6:00pm
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November 7, 2019
POETRY READING & CONVERSATION
Reading & Conversation with Natasha Saje, and Kim T. Adamson
Westminster College (Salt Lake City) | 7:00pm
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July 27, 2019
NEW POEMS READING
Reading & Conversation of new poems inspired by David Hammons’ show, hosted by Alitash Kebede Art Gallery
Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles) | 10:00am
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July 21, 2019
YOUR BODY IS WAR BOOK LAUNCH
Reading & Conversation of Your Body Is War, hosted by The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Group
The Underground Museum (Los Angeles) | 1:00pm
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March 29, 2019
AWP PANEL: IMMIGRANT WOMEN WRITERS
Reading & Conversation with Marvin Soliven, Hope Wabuke, Huda Al-Marashi and Natalia Sylvester
AWP (Portland) | 1:00pm
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April 8, 2018
FUCHSIA & OTHER POEMS
Reading from Fuchsia
Madame Mao’s Dowry (Shanghai) | 7:00pm
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April 5, 2018
LMU WRITING AWARDS
Reading & Talk
Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) | 11:00am
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March 24, 2018
RECLAIMING OUR NARRATIVES
Keynote Address & Reading
Harvard University (Cambridge) | 7:00pm
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April 5, 2018
NEW & SELECTED WORK
Reading & Conversation with Kwame Dawes
Pacific University (Seaside) | 9:00am
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November 15, 2017
NEW & SELECTED WORK
Reading & Conversation
Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) | 7:30pm
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November 8, 2017
THE NEUDSTAT FESTIVAL
Reading with Major Jackson, Ladan Osman, Sasha Pimentel
Oklahoma University (Norman) | 3:00pm
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October 14, 2017
VOICES FROM LEIMERT PART
Reading & Book Launch hosted by Harriet Tubman Press
Tsehai Publishers (Los Angeles) | 3:00pm
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March 29, 2017
AN EVENING OF POETRY
Reading & Conversation with Gail Wronsky
Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) | 7:30pm
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November 3, 2016
THE LOUDEST VOICES
Reading & Conversation with Samantha Cohen, Todd Fredson, and Muriel Leung
General Lee’s (Los Angeles) | 11:00am
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October 21, 2016
AFRICAN DIASPORA READING
Reading & Conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Maaza Mengiste, Mebrak Tareke, and Emmanuel Iduma
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (Brooklyn) | 7:00pm
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June 18, 2016
FUCHSIA BOOK LAUNCH
Reading, Conversation & Interactive Artwork featuring East African Artists and Ethiopian Jazz
Coffee Connection (Los Angeles) | 7:00pm
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