Join Kundiman Southwest for the book launch of Brooke Sahni's In This Distance and a poetry reading featuring Brooke Sahni and Jessica Abughattas.

This event is presented by Kundiman Southwest and will take place virtually on Thursday, September 25th at 7:00 PM MT. The event is free to attend. Register here for the Zoom link.

Brooke Sahni is the author of Before I Had the Word (Texas Review Press, 2021), which won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize selected by Maggie Smith and was finalist for the Arizona and New Mexico Book Awards. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Boulevard, Verse Daily, 32 Poems and elsewhere. Her new collection of poetry, In This Distance, is available now for pre-order. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona.

Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. She received an MFA from Antioch University in Los Angeles, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Lunch Ticket. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Poet Laureate of Altadena, California and editor of Altadena Poetry Review. Her short poetry film Dinner Party premiered at Mizna Twin Cities Film Festival in 2021, was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Brush and Lyre Prize, and appeared at RAWI Fest. She has taught poetry workshops for Kundiman, Orion, Sevilla Writers House, and Northeastern University’s Writing Center. Her writing can be found in Poetry, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.