Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi

Recorded November 21, 2023. Literature & Resistance: Poetry
Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi Hosted by the
Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland Neill Lecture
Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Tuesday 21 November, 6pm The Centre
for Resistance Studies is delighted to be partnering again with
Poetry Ireland to welcome three acclaimed poets for a special
reading in our ongoing series on Literature & Resistance.
Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi will join us to read from
and discuss their work. They will explore the nature of resistance
in poetry, and how it informs their relationships with language,
form, and translation, and reflect on their broader experiences
with writing and poetry, which encompass journalism, teaching, and
publishing, in the US, Iraq, and Ireland. Please join us for an
evening of beautiful poetry and stimulating conversation on the
politics and power of the written word. *** Éireann Lorsung will
walk or take the bus or ride a bicycle; will crouch to look at the
ground beneath her feet; will spend an hour thinking with you on
how a poem works and come back tomorrow to ask again; will watch
the light change and the small plants arrive. She loves to make
things with other people in the “location of possibility” that the
classroom is. She teaches writing at University College Dublin, and
is learning about fruit cultivation, gull behavior, the wild and
domestic plants of Ireland, and climate change alongside others in
the city. A 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, her most
recent collection is The Century (Milkweed, 2020). Majed Mujed was
born in Iraq in 1971 and has lived in Ireland since 2015. One of
the founders of the Iraqi House of Poetry, he worked as a
journalist and publisher in the Iraqi cultural press for twenty
years. He has published five collections of poetry in Arabic and
has garnered awards for his work from the Al Mada Cultural
Foundation, Iraqi House of Wisdom and Iraqi Intellectuals
Conference. In 2021, he was one of the inaugural recipients of a
Play It Forward Fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland. His
collection The Book of Trivialities, originally written in his
native Arabic, was translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
and published by Skein Press in 2023. It was selected by the Arts
Council for the #ReadMór project for Culture Night 2023. Majed will
be joined by the translator and interpreter Mustafa Keshkeia, who
is currently working on a PhD on crisis translation at DCU. Hua Xi
(she/they) is the Poetry Ireland Eavan Boland Emerging Artist
Awardee for 2023. A writer and artist, their work has appeared in
The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. They
previously won the Boston Review Poetry Contest, were named the
2022 Poet-to-Come Scholar by the Walt Whitman Birthplace
Association, and received a 2023 NEA Fellowship in Poetry. They
help edit interviews at Guernica and read poetry for The Drift.
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