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Prize-winning poet and physician Fady Joudah will read from his visionary sixth collection of poems, [...], and engage in conversation with UT professor and poet Roger Reeves. This event is free and open to the public.

Fady Joudah is the author of […], his sixth collection of poetry. He has also translated several works of poetry from the Arabic, including those by Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan, and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award for his translation, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He was born in Austin, Texas, and currently lives in Houston with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.