[MES Forum] Monday - Sara Abou Rashed's Book Launch

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Subject: [MES Forum] Monday - Sara Abou Rashed's Book Launch

MES Forum Members, English PhD student Sara Abou Rashed's debut poetry collection, Theories of Return, is now in print. Please celebrate with us on Monday April 20th at 3:00pm in 141 Sullivant Hall (Barnett Collaboratory) for the book launch!

https://english.osu.edu/events/sara-abou-rasheds-theories-return-poetry-book-launch

About the book:
Theories of Return is an urgent and unflinching poetry collection that resists both literal and literary erasure, asserting the right to exist. In these pages, Sara Abou Rashed’s voice does not ask permission but commands attention, bearing witness to exile while refusing silence. As much as the book honors Sara's family displacement in 1948 from Palestine to Syrian refugee camps and later to the U.S., it is ultimately collective rather than confessional, pressing outward to ask universal questions about the ethics of war, ownership, language, motherhood, and intimacy. Each poem operates as its own theory and attempt at return, binding abstraction to lived experience, and inherited history to the brutal clarity of the present moment. Formally daring and emotionally exacting, Theories of Return offers readers poetry that is intellectually rigorous, deeply human, and unafraid to speak.

Event Details<https://english.osu.edu/events/sara-abou-rasheds-theories-return-poetry-book-launch>:

Monday, April 20, 3:00-4:30pm
311 Denney Hall
This event is cosponsored by NESA, English and The Journal, and will feature readings from Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry Allison Pitinii Davis<https://english.osu.edu/people/pitiniidavis.1>, MFA student Misha Ponnuraju<https://english.osu.edu/people/ponnuraju.1>, followed by a Q&A with NESA faculty Johanna Sellman<https://nesa.osu.edu/people/sellman.13>.
Please share this email and the attached flyer to spread the word! We look forward to seeing you there!
P.S. The official launch off-campus will be on Thursday, April 30th, at 6:00pm, at the McConnell Arts Center. https://mcconnellarts.org/calendar/sara-abou-rashed-s-theories-of-return-book-launch-with-scott-woods-and-mandy-shunnarah<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mcconnellarts.org/calendar/sara-abou-rashed-s-theories-of-return-book-launch-with-scott-woods-and-mandy-shunnarah__;!!KGKeukY!2ocIktXgT2yBXtFjqmev68Cnm9W76KaTWltQ-Me2RY4LxXPWWJub0NFU-_yejlCIjqWxj8GdBh3HPsbECqCzZ6M5Vp3YC2B-lGk-k23dr6o$>






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