Lenna Jawdat and Susan Muaddi Darraj at the Baltimore Book Festival: 70,000: POEMS

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About this event

A conversation about Lenna Jawdat’s 70,000: an “embodied meditation on cultural displacement, memory, and resilience.” We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday, September 20th, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage! At 1PM, join us for an event with Lenna Jawdat in conversation with Susan Muaddi Darraj, celebrating Lenna Jawdat’s powerful new poetry collection 70,000! 70,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspired by the removal of approximately 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during the events of 1948. Of those books, most have not been returned; about 6,000 remain housed in Israeli national collections, where they are largely inaccessible to Palestinians. A powerful act of remembrance and resistance, 70,000 transforms cultural erasure into an archive of grief, memory, and hope.

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