Edgar Garcia and Ghayath Almadhoun with Program for Writers Students
Poetry and Performance Series
October 10, 2022
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM America/Chicago
Location
Madison Street Books
Address
1127 W Madison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileJoin the Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas in welcoming Edgar Garcia and Ghayath Almadhoun for a reading. Also reading at this event will be Jules Wood and Katrina Washington from the Program for Writers at UIC.
Date posted
May 2, 2022
Date updated
Sep 30, 2022
Speakers
Edgar Garcia | Writer, Poet | University of Chicago
Edgar Garcia was born in California to a family of Central American extraction. He earned an associate degree from Chaffey Community College, a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and master’s degrees in English and philosophy, as well as a PhD, from Yale University. He is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, and works in the fields of indigenous and Latinx studies, American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental criticism. His collection of poems and anthropological essays, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography, won the 2018 Fence Modern Poets Series award. He is also the author of the chapbook Boundary Loot (Punch Press, 2012) and the coeditor of American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia University Press, 2017). His poems and translations have appeared in the Antioch Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Jacket2, and the anthology The Alteration of Silence: Recent Chilean Poetry (Diálogos, 2013), among other places.
Ghayath Almadhoun | Poet
Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet who was born in a refugee camp in Damascus in 1979. He studied Arabic literature at the University of Damascus and has worked as a cultural journalist for several Arab-language newspapers. In 2006, he co-founded Bayt-al-Qasid, “The House of Poetry” in Damascus. He is the author of Adrenalin (Action Books, 2017, translated by Catherine Cobham). He has published 4 collections in Arabic and his work has been translated into many languages. With Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg, he has made several poetry films which can be viewed at movingpoems.com. A series of poems by Almadhoun were projected as part of For Aarhus, an installation by Jenny Holzer. He is currently in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Katrina Washington | Writer | Program for Writers at UIC
Katrina Washington is a 5th year PhD student at UIC who specializes in creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Her work has been featured in both print Anthologies and online journals. Her most recent accomplishment is the publication of two poems in Black Fire This Time, an anthology celebrating the roots and legacy of The Black Arts Movement. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stories Matter Foundation Master Award, a repeat NCTE panelist, and proud educator. Katrina is a South Side Chicago native, wife, and mother. Katrina is close to completing her debut novel, Flowers and Weeds, which she describes as the debut of her "evil twin".
Jules Wood | Poet & Performance Artist | Program for Writers at UIC
Jules Wood is a queer poet, performance artist, and teacher living in Chicago. She is currently in her third year at the Program for Writers English PhD program at UIC and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry has appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Lana Turner Journal, and Nat. Brut, among other journals.