Our Home and the World: Poetry for Laal NYC

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Welcome and Introduction – Jafreen Uddin, AAWW Executive Director

Reading: Tarfia Faizullah

Reading: Samira Sadeque

Reading: Nadia Q. Ahmad

Closing Remarks – Jafreen Uddin, AAWW Executive Director


Welcome and Introduction

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Tarfia Faizullah

Tarfia was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Bangladeshi immigrants and raised in Texas. She is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam. Her writing has appeared widely in the US and abroad.

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Samira Sadeque

Samira a Brooklyn-based Bangladeshi journalist and poet, writing on immigration, mental health, gender. Her poetry appears on Button Poetry, and in a number of publications, including No, Dear Magazine, Black Horse Review, ActiveMuse, and In Full Color.

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Nadia Q. Ahmad

Nadia is a poet, writer, and editor born and raised in New York and currently based in Queens. Her work has been published in The Shoreline Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Newtown Literary, SpliceLit, AAWW Open City, and The Margins.

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Closing Remarks

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