Saturday, September 16, 7:00 PM EDT Museum of the Palestinian People - 1900 18th Street NW Washington, DC

Museum of the Palestinian People is celebrating Zeina Azzam as a new member of the Museum’s “Making Their Mark” wall that highlights Palestinian Americans who have made outstanding cultural contributions and for a reading, discussion, and signing of her new full-length poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You, (Tiger Bark Press, July 2023).

Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. She is the poet laureate of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022-2025. Her poems appear in literary journals, webzines, and anthologies, and her full-length poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You, was published in July 2023 by Tiger Bark Press. Zeina’s chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, was released in 2021 by The Poetry Box. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Museum of the Palestinian People with light refreshments to follow. Copies of "Some Things Never Leave You" will be available for purchase at the event.

Resilience Monthly Club members can use the code 1948 to attend this event free of charge.

Tickets ($20): Zeina Azzam Poetry Reading: "Some Things Never Leave You" Tickets, Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite