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Poetry Under the Stars

Presented by Longway Planetarium at Longway Planetarium

March 8, 2011

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Join Longway Planetarium as we host Poetry Under the Stars. This event is Free and open to the public. Meet the Poets from 6:30 - 7:00pm. At 7pm, we will gather inside the Dome for our Presenters to begin reading poetry, while the stars move over head, creating a very unique experience. Presenting in March are Ibaa Ismail, Jamile Trueba Lawand and University of Michigan-Flint students reading poetry in French and Arabic.





Ibaa Ismail: Arabic

Ibaa Ismail published her first collection of poems in Arabic “Horses of Light and Alienation”, then “Songs of the Soul” and “The Light of My Nation”, a collection of poems for children, then “Inflammations of An Emigrant”. Her latest collection is “The Awakening of Fire and Jasmine”. Ibaa’s poems were included in a number of anthologies, such as The Anthology of Arab American Poetry. She participated in many evening literary performances and symposiums sponsored by different American and Arab American cultural organizations.



Jamile Trueba Lawand: Spanish Andalusian Poetry in English Translation.

Jamile Trueba Lawand teaches Spanish at the University of Michigan-Flint, where she also directs the “Middle Eastern” Studies Program. Born in Brazil, she was raised both in Michigan and Spain (in Seville, the capital of Andalusia), and has traveled to several European destinations. Her interests include understanding cultural identity in the Spanish-speaking world, and the study of the Arabo-Islamic presence (711-1492) in Spain: Al-Andalus.