Femme Ghosts, Bidoon Statelessness & Translating to Arabic | Mona Kareem
In this conversation, we talked to Mona Kareem about her three poetry collections, and her trilingual chapbook "Femme Ghosts".
Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. She is a 2021 NEA Grant-Fellow. Her most recent publication “Femme Ghosts” is a trilingual chapbook published by Publication Studio in Fall 2019. Her work has been translated into nine languages, and appear in Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly, Fence, Ambit, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Poetry International, PEN English, Modern Poetry in Translation, Two Lines, and Specimen. Kareem held fellowships and residencies with Princeton University, Poetry International, Arab-American National Museum, Norwich Center, and Forum Transregionale Studien. She has been a featured writer at festivals and conferences in Cairo, Istanbul, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Seoul, Copenhagen, and the United States. Her research focuses on contemporary Arab feminist literature.
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