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Dates Tue, Apr 6, 2027 at 7:30pm
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets $20
Duration 60 minutes
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is launching its inaugural National Poetry Month Reading with American Book Award winner Matthew Shenoda. Recognized early in his career by Poets & Writers magazine for his first book, Somewhere Else, Shenoda is a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund and both the African Poetry book series and On African Poetry book series. The Folger welcomes Shenoda as he reads from previous works, as well as his new collection Holdings, to be released by Knopf in April 2027.
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About the poet
Matthew Shenoda
Matthew Shenoda is the author of Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press, 2005), which was named one of 2005’s debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and was the winner of a 2006 American Book Award; Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions, 2009); and Tahrir Suite: Poems (Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award. Holdings, his next collection, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2027.