[AWP Offsite] Ways with Words: Honoring the Paths of Women Immigrants and Refugees

Poet and storyteller and Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum invite to explore the divergent paths of  women immigrants  and refugees from around the world.Merna Ann Hecht

Journey with us through poetry readings from Washington's State Poet Laureate and civic Poet , Lake County's Poet Laureate and Academy of American Poets fellow, retired Assistant Teaching Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Washington , co-founder of ACHD and Somali-language poet , Afghani poet and Somali poet .Claudia Castro Luna Georgina Marie GuardadoShahrzad ShamsHamdi AbdulleMariyam FaiziMuna Aidid

The evening will conclude with a wine reception to celebrate our wonderful readers on the last evening of AWP.  

is Washington's State Poet Laureate (2018–2021) and served as Seattle's inaugural Civic Poet (2015–2017). She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets, Poets Laureate Fellowship and the author of (Two Sylvias), finalist for the WA State Book Award 2018, (Floating Bridg…