Nava EtShalom is the author of the poetry collection, The Knives We Need (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021). Nava’s poetry has won the 92Y Discovery Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and prizes from the Academy of American Poets. As an editor, she’s worked on stories for This American Life, The New York Times, and other outlets. Nava EtShalom learned to talk in Jerusalem and to read in Brooklyn, and now lives in Philadelphia. As a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, Nava writes about Anglophone literary representations of settler-colonialism in Palestine since the late 19th century. She’s an alum of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan MFA program.
Philip Metres is the author of the poetry collections Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), A Concordance of Leaves (2013), which won the Arab American Book Award, and To See the Earth (2008). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry, and he is the recipient of honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a Watson Fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council Grants, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Reading followed by Q&A and book signing.
Cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and Middle East and North Africa Studies.
