About this Event
Olin Library, Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO
https://library.wustl.edu/events/mona-kareem/Join the International Writers Series for an evening of poetry in translation with esteemed poet and translator Mona Kareem. She will be joined in conversation by Safa Khatib, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature.
In the words of her translator Sara Elkamel, Mona Kareem is “the author of an impossibly fluid cartography.” This event will focus on the trajectory of Kareem’s poetics across her three internationally acclaimed books: Mornings Washed by Thirst’s Water, Absence with Amputated Fingers and What I Sleep for Today. Moving between her poems in both their Arabic original and Elkamel’s English translations, the conversation will approach larger questions about the relationship between poetry, perception, imagination and geopolitics.
Free and open to all, registration requested.