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The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Where Do You Live? in Arabic & English
Sunday June 1, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium
Come witness this lively and moving “correspondence in poetry” about war and friendship—based on the collaborative poetry collection Where do you live? أين‭ ‬تعيشين؟ (Arrowsmith Press) by Iraqi poet Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and American poet Jennifer Jean. The Center for Arabic Culture in Boston director, Alma Richeh, will perform Hanaa’s poems in Arabic while Jennifer will perform her own poems in English. They will be accompanied by a video produced by the Golden Thread Theater which features music and artwork created by the Her Story Is collective for this unique peace building project. Following the reading, Her Story Is founding member Amy Merrill will facilitate the Q&A.
Speakers
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Jennifer Jean

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ, Object Lesson, and The Fool. Her resource book is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. Along with Iraqi poet Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, she's co-written and co-translated a correspondence in Arabic and English poems, titled Where do... Read More →
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Alma Richeh

Alma Richeh was born in Damascus, Syria and holds a law degree from Damascus University and an LL.M. degree in international legal studies from American University’s Washington College of Law, in Washington D.C. She has worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees... Read More →
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Amy Merrill

Amy Merrill is a playwright, a budding librettist, and an advocate for women artists. Her plays include: Winter Colors, Ardent Girls, A Cold Day in Summer, and Shoe Leather Epidemiology; as well as Camp Seagulls (co-written with Elham Nasser Al-Zabedy). She’s an organizer for the... Read More →
Sunday June 1, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium 2 New Liberty St Salem, MA 01970 USA

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