The Writer’s Center welcomes three poets to discuss their use of non-English words in their English language poetry. Do they italicize? Translate? Footnote? Endnote? Through a craft discussion focused on the poem on the page, the poetry book as a whole and the ideal reader, you’ll leave the panel with some choices and directions for both reading and writing poetry.
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Sara R. Burnett is the author of Seed Celestial (2022), winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. She has published in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, PANK, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, RHINO and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, and a MA in English Literature from the University of Vermont. She also writes picture books. She lives in Maryland with her family. Her website is: www.sararburnett.com
Majda Gama was born in Beirut to a Saudi father and American mother. Her hometown is Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and her roots Hijazi, but she also has a long, complicated relationship with Northern Virginia where her father was stationed in the 1970’s. Majda is the author of the debut poetry collection In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls, winner of the Wandering Aengus Press prize for poetry, and the chapbook The Call of Paradise selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvia’s press chapbook prize. Her poetry has been published recently in Adroit, AGNI, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Tupleo Quarterly. Her honors include a Gregory Djanikian Scholar award from The Adroit Journal and the Graybeal-Gowen award for Virginia poets from Shenandoah literary journal. In 2025 she received a special mention from the Pushcart Prize for a poem published by Terrain. https://www.majdagama.com
Chloe Yelena Miller is the author of Perforated (2026) and Viable (2021), both out from Lily Poetry Review Books. A series of English and Italian Vocabulary poems span both books. She is a co-founder of Brown Bag Lit, an online writing community, where she teaches poetry workshops. She also offers classes through Politics and Prose, New Directions in Writing and privately. www.chloeyelenamiller.com
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