Three new volumes of poetry are dedicated, each in its own way, to the fluid, questionable, foreign, but also the openness of identities. While Hannah Schraven searches for a "outside the injuries" (2024) along the lines of physical and linguistic disabilities and Patty Nash lets the individual become porous as a national myth in "Walden Pond" (2024), Thomas Mortesá Hashemi traces the lack of belonging in the "contact break" (2024) between a German mother and Persian father.
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Hannah Schraven, Patty Nash, Thomas Mortesá Hashemi
On the evening, Hannah Schraven, Thomas Mortesá Hashemi and Patty Nash will present their new works and talk about the fluidity of identities and the role that writing poetry can play in them. This creates a sound-textual resonance space in which the voices of the poets meet and penetrate each other.
The reading will take place in German and English.
Thomas Mortesá Hashemi lives in Berlin and works as a philosophy teacher and department head at a school in Berlin-Wedding. He writes poetry and is involved in poetry communication and criticism, including as a member of the Lyrik e.V. network and a multiple participant in the Academy for Poetry Criticism. In his poetry he deals with questions of identity and belonging, Middle and Far Eastern philosophy and dealing with illness and parenthood.
Patty Nash grew up in the USA and now lives in Berlin. Her poems have appeared in the Paris Review and DIAGRAM, among others. Her first volume of poetry, "Walden Pond," was published in 2024. She is a member of the Berlin poetry collective das ad hoc.
Hannah Schraven tests poetic formats that operate at the interface of text, sound and image, and has been represented with works at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and the Poetry Festival Berlin, among others. Hannah is a member of the Berlin poetry collective das ad hoc. Hannah Schraven's debut volume "Außen der Blessuren" was published in 2024.
(GERMAN/ENGLISH)
Dates
January 2025
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