Please join 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy for a special reading to celebrate the new anthology Written in Arlington.
Purchase Written in Arlington
Event Details
January 24 | 3:00 PM | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT
Sean will discuss the project with editor Katherine Young, and several contributing writers will read from the work. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions prior to or during the conversation. Submit your questions ahead of time by emailing sean@1455litarts.org
Tune into 1455 on Facebook at the scheduled event time to watch the live stream!
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Jessica Claire Haney is an Arlington-based writer, editor and tutor. Her work has appeared in Beltway Poetry Review, Porcupine Literary, Court Green, Earth’s Daughters, Scary Mommy, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, two Grace and Gravity anthologies from Paycock Press, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle. Learn more at JessicaClaireHaney.com
Tod Ibrahim is Executive Vice President of the American Society of Nephrology. A two-time recipient of George Washington University’s Jenny McKean Moore scholarship for poets, Tod has a master’s degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Brian Donnell James is the 2020 United Nations Food and Agriculture World Food Day poetry first prize winner. He is also a 2020 National Poetry Writing Month contest winner. He is a poet, writer, and public speaker who has been published in Africa, Europe, and throughout the United States.
Katherine E. Young is the author of Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards and editor of Written in Arlington. She is the translator of Anna Starobinets, Akram Aylisli, and numerous Russophone poets; she was a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow. She served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia. Learn more at
katherine-young-poet.com
Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 75 print and online journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her publications include Muslim Wife, The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, and When You Escape. The editor of a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table, Zakariya blogs at butdoesitrhyme.com
