Speaking of Poetry
Friday, October 13, 2023 9:00 AM EDT
Online Location
Fairfax County Poet Laureate, Danielle Badra, explores the power of poetry in this conversation with poet Jennifer Grotz, author of Still Falling, and Alexandria Poet Laureate Zeina Azzam, author of Some Things Never Leave You. Grotz explores the profound vastness of grief in her collection, ruminating on the deaths of her friends, mentors, and mother; the endings of relationships; and the confinements of life. Poet Jericho Brown says “Still Falling is an undeniably gorgeous book of love poems full of grief.” In her collection, Azzam, a Palestinian American, depicts her childhood memories and the repeated experiences of exile in order to both celebrate and mourn life’s wonders. Poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha says “Azzam writes with heart and with an ear keenly tuned to the rhythms of displacement and loss.”
