Flier design: Claire Zhang

We're excited to announce the second reading of the 2024 Belladonna* reading series! GIST is a series of readings in public spaces co-curated by Emily Bark Brown and Ayaz Muratoglu. The second reading will feature Rachelle Rahmé and Kaleem Hawa.

When: Saturday, March 23rd at 2pm
Where: Great Hall, Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont St and on zoom.

Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. She was the recipient of the Poetry Project's 2021-2022 ESB Fellowship, and her poems and translations have been published in Fonograf, Fieldnotes, the tiny, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Rahmé holds a Masters in Philosophy from The New School. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Kaleem Hawa is a writer and organizer who lives in New York City. His poetry has been published in The Poetry Review, The White Review, and Mizna among others.