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Mahmoud Darwish Tribute
Sunday, October 5
The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
(subway: B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette; 6 to Bleecker Street)

With readings and words and memories from Breyten Breytenbach, Pierre Joris, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Chuck Wachtel, Farah Ghniem, Ghassan Nasr, Danae Elon, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Ala Alryyes, Ammiel Alcalay, and Archipelago Books. Zafer Tawil will perform on the oud. Refreshments will be served. Admission free.

Become a child, that I might see my face in your mirror.
Are you me
and I you?
Teach me poetry that I might elegize you now now now
as you elegize me.

— Mahmoud Darwish