Fady Joudah in Conversation with Roger Reeves

Location: Joynes Reading Room, 2501 Whitis Ave., #007
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.

Supporters

Plan II Honors & the Joynes Reading Room, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and New Writers Project

Event series: Literature and Global Justice, Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice, Co-sponsorships, Other Speakers