DATE: February 7, 2025
TIME: 6:30 pm PST
LOCATION: Middle East Children’s Alliance, 1101 8th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Tickets: $10 from Eventbrite
Poet, educator, and activist, Kathy Engel will read from her new book: Dear Inheritors and the anthology she co-edited with Kamal Boullata, We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon.
Introduction by Aracelis Girmay, poet, children’s book writer, educator, editor. Her most recent book of poems is The Black Maria.
Arabic music by Palestinian musician, Ibrahim Safi.
Kathy Engel’s books include Ruth’s Skirts, 2007 and The Lost Brother Alphabet, 2020. She is the founder of MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, the former President and co-founder of Riptide Communications, co-founder of East End Women in Black, Poets for Ayiti, among other groups.
Her new book of poems and personal prose, Dear Inheritors and We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon are available at ShopPalestine.org