Indran Amirthanayagam and Zeina Azzam read from their poetry, followed by a brief open mic. In person at Compass Art Center – 10335 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, Maryland, USA but also available remotely on Zoom — https://bit.ly/3YNwHg.

Indran Amirthanayagam, poet, editor,

publisher, translator, and diplomat, has published 24

books of poetry in various languages, most recently

Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner’s Almanac

(Spuyten Duyvil). He edits the Beltway Poetry

Quarterly and has received fellowships from the New

York Foundation for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony,

and more. Indran hosts The Poetry Channel,

(https://youtube.com/user/indranam) and publishes

at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com).

See also https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com.

Zeina Azzam, current Poet Laureate of

Alexandria, VA, is a Palestinian American writer,

editor, and community activist. Nominated twice for

the Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in

literary journals, webzines, and anthologies and been

collected in the books, Some Things Never Leave You

(2023) and Bayna Bayna, In-Between (2021). She

volunteers as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a

writing program for youth in Gaza, and holds an M.A.

in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.

See also www.zeinaazzam.com.