Followed by open mic poetry and spoken word Event is free & open to the public

Born in a Palestinian refugee camp, Suheir Hammad moved to Brooklyn when she was a child. Although still a young artist, she's explores the tensions of her 21st century amalagam of identities in biography, poetry, and theatre. She's best known for her renderings of her own hip-hop poetry in the TONY award-winning Def Poetry Jam. Suheir has been able to travel throughout the world via her poetry. She has read her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn's street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies, and in zines stapled together by queer youth collectives. Suheir was the first Palestinian starring in a Broadway show, and she continues to be the first Palestinian in many artistic spaces throughout the States. Her published works include Born Palestinian, Born Black (1996), Drops of this Story (1996), and Zaatar Diva (2005).

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