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Raena Shirali Poetry Reading
March 22 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Please join the Creative Writing Program for a free poetry reading and Q&A with Writer-in-Residence, Raena Shirali.
Raena Shirali is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, GILT (YesYes Books, 2017), won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, and her second, SUMMONINGS (Black Lawrence Press, 2022), won the 2021 Hudson Prize. Winner of a Pushcart Prize & a former Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University, Shirali is also the recipient of prizes and honors from VIDA, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, & Cosmonauts Avenue. Formerly a Co- Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine, Shirali now serves as Faculty Advisor for Folio Magazine. She holds an MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University and is an Assistant Professor of English at Holy Family University.
SUMMONINGS explores how antiquated norms around female mysticism in India and America inform each culture’s treatment of women. Through a poetics grounded in the inevitable failure of embodying the other, Shirali comments on power, patriarchy, authorial privilege, and the shifting role of witness.
Support for this event comes from the Office of Academic Affairs. Books will be available for sale from Prologue Bookshop.
The event is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs.
