EVENT HEADER IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of the featured reader outlined with a white line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photo are the words "Open Mouth Presents: K. Iver." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner. Photo: The poet Maya Salameh visible from the torso up. She smiles slightly while making direct eye contact with the camera; she wears a gray tank top and a necklace with an amber orb in it and her hair is out and curly. Photo by Katie Han.

A Reading with Maya Salameh

EVENT HEADER IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Photo of the featured reader outlined with a white line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photo are the words "Open Mouth Presents: Maya Salameh." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner.

Photo: The poet Maya Salameh visible from the torso up. She smiles slightly while making direct eye contact with the camera; she wears a gray tank top and a necklace with an amber orb in it and her hair is out and curly. Photo by Katie Han.

Join us for a reading by featured poet Maya Salameh. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by community members.

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ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom and Otter.ai auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of poems will be made available via Google Docs. Our Access Statement will be read before we begin.

Recommended for attendees 16 years and above.

FEATURED POET:

Maya Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022) and rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). She is the youngest-ever winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the 2022 Previously Published Poetry Prize and 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry. They have served as a National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets, and received fellowships from the William Male Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, the Markaz Resource Center, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, AGNI, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, KPBS, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh or at mayasalameh.com.