Friday October 16, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Speakers 
Zeina Hashem Beck is the author of This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty, a collection of mirror sonnets forthcoming from Penguin Books in March 2027. She’s the winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry for O, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and...
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Janine Mogannam is a diasporic Palestinian poet, librarian, and literary curator from San Francisco/Ramaytush Ohlone land. Her work has been supported by Tin House, VONA, RAWI, Kearny Street Workshop, and The Speakeasy Project. She has performed and programmed with Still Here San...
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Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet and editor. Deema is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received a Northern California Book Award. She’s also co-author of Water to Water...
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Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American poet and the author of the chapbook, "Paper and Stick." Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently serving as a 2026-2028 Wallace Stegner...
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Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) at San Francisco State University. A scholar and organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent...
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Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her debut collection,
Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, which won the 2026 Perugia Press Prize, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize and The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Vassar Miller Prize. Her poems have won...
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