Events

AWP 2021

03/03/2021 - 03/07/2021

Event details

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Below is a selection of SWANA related panels we recommend checking out this year, if you are attending the conference. Check out the full AWP 2021 schedule here.

March 3, 2021

3–4pm– W140 Writing Between the Worlds: Story, Setting, Identity
Presenters: Ava Homa, Ehsaneh Sadr, Brenda Peynado, Michael Zapata, AH Kim

4:10-5pm– W144 Women Poets Sharing Their Success Stories and Immigrant Experiences through Poetry
Presenters: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Deema Shehabi, Pramila Venkateswaran

5:20–6:20pm– W161 Many-Splendored Muslim Literature
Presenters: Samina Najmi, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Alison Mandaville, Maryam A. Sullivan, Kazim Ali

March 4, 2021

10–11am– T104 Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press
Presenters: Leila Chatti, Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, Nikki Wallschlaeger

March 6, 2021

6:30–7:45pm– S144 Arab American Caucus
Presenters: Jameelah Lang, Glenn Shaheen

March 7, 2021

11:10–12:10pm– Sn104 New and Known: Poetic Forms and Traditions.
Presenters: Khaled Mattawa, Mark Wunderlich, Diane Seuss, Roy G. Guzmán