Blackburn Study Center
Saturday, May 30, 2PM
Join us for an afternoon of readings with four New York-based Sudanese voices.
Daad Sharfi is a poet and immigrant-rights advocate from Chicago, by way of Sudan. She earned a BA in economics and another in ethnicity, race and migration from Yale University. She is an alum of Winter Tangerine and Cave Canem workshops and won a Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium fellowship in 2020. Her work has been featured in the 20.35 Africa anthology, Sawti, the Drinking Gourd, PANK and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in Brooklyn and is pursuing her JD at NYU Law, where you'll often find her daydreaming in class about the endless possibilities of language.
Dalia Elhassan is a Sudanese-American poet and writer based in NYC. She is the author of In Half Light, a chapbook in the New-Generation African Poets Series (Sita) published in collaboration with Akashic Books and the African Poetry Book Fund. Her work is featured in a number of publications, including The Kenyon Review, The Oakland Arts Review, and Rattle #59. She is the recipient of the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Prize for nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
Mayada Ibrahim is a literary translator, editor, and writer based in Queens, New York, with roots in Khartoum and London, working between Arabic and English. Her translations have received the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grant and the English PEN Translates Award, and she has been awarded the MacDowell Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Dolce Stil Criollo, The Common, Words Without Borders, A Perfect Vacuum, and Willows House in South Sudan. She is the managing editor at 52 Walker, a David Zwirner gallery. Previously, she worked with Tilted Axis Press and Bloomsbury Publishing (BQFP).
Mohammed Zenia is a Sudanese/Eritrean poet. They are the author of Tel Aviv, James Baldwin’s Lungs in the 80s and Black Bedouin. Their work has appeared in e-flux, the Poetry Project and 240 magazine, among other publications.
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Blackburn Study Center: Robert Blackburn with high school students in 1989