Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

Poetry reading on Requiem, Rwanda

Date(s)
Tuesday 17th November 2015 (19:00-20:00)
Contact
To attend this event, please RSVP to fiveleaves.bookshopevents@gmail.com or alternatively call in to the shop.
Description
Rwanda after 1994

Dr. Laura Apol is an associate professor at Michigan State University. In addition to numerous professional publications on writing and literature, she is the author of three collections of her own poems: Falling into Grace, Crossing the Ladder of Sun (winner of the Oklahoma Book Award), and Requiem, Rwanda, her newest collection, drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, translated into Kinyarwanda under the title Emwe N’imvura Irabyibuka (Even the Rain Remembers).

She will be giving a poetry reading on her newest collection - Requiem, Rwanda.

Booking is recommended.

Presented in association with the Rwandan Stories of Change Project in partnership with Five Leaves Bookshop.

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