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For a map and parking location,\u00a0click here<\/A>.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Reading followed by an on-stage interview \u2013 conducted by memoirist\/performance poet\/actress\/educator Jasminne Mendez<\/STRONG> \u2013 plus a book sale and signing.

\nTo order books by Carmen Gim\u00e9nez Smith & Fady Joudah\u00a0 at a discount\u00a0click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.

\nTo submit questions for\u00a0Carmen Gim\u00e9nez Smith & Fady Joudah\u00a0click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.

\nTo learn more about the 2018\/2019 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series\u00a0click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.<\/P>
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This reading is presented in collaboration with Tintero Projects.\u00a0<\/EM><\/P>
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\"\"CARMEN GIM\u00c9NEZ SMITH is the author of six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth<\/EM>, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, which The Nation<\/EM> calls \u201ca sharp, feminist manifesto by way of poetry collection.\u201d She received the Juniper Prize for Poetry for\u00a0Goodbye, Flicker<\/EM>, and her latest book Cruel Futures<\/EM> is described by Ross Gay as \u201cone of those rare books, rare pieces of art, that manages to be extremely intimate, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique.\u201d Her memoir\u00a0Bring Down the Little Birds<\/EM>, winner of an American Book Award, was praised by the Austin-American Statesman<\/EM> \u201cas innovative in form as it is honest in emotion\u2026 outrageously smart\u2026.\u00a0<\/EM>Bring Down the Little Birds<\/EM>\u00a0seems to tip motherhood on its side to expose its brutal-though-beautiful underbelly.\u201d Coeditor of\u00a0Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing<\/EM> and poetry coeditor of The Nation<\/EM>, she serves as the publisher of Noemi Press and co-director of CantoMundo.<\/P>
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\"\"FADY JOUDAH\u2019S most recent poetry collection Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance<\/EM> is hailed as \u201cexceptional\u201d by Publishers Weekly<\/EM>, and Mary Szybist writes, \u201cFew books of American poetry seem to me as essential as this one\u2026. Joudah\u2019s gifts for articulating the intersections of bewilderment, tenderness, rage, and grief are fully alive here. These poems blaze into the visionary.\u201d Houston-based Palestinian American poet and physician, his other books include The Earth in the Attic<\/EM>, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition; Aligh<\/EM>t; and Textu<\/EM>, a collection of 160-character poems written on a smartphone\u2019s text message screen. 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