Poetry off the Shelf: Fatena Alghorra, Kristian Sendon Cordero & Ali Cobby Eckermann

Palestinian-Belgian poet Fatena Alghorra is the author of four books of poetry, including A Very Troublesome Woman (2003). She is a freelance journalist for Al Jazeera, a lecturer, a performer, and the organizer of poetry events in Belgium and the Netherlands. 
Kristian Sendon Cordero writes in Filipino, Bikol, and Rinconada, and has translated Borges, Kafka, Wilde, and Rilke to these languages. Two of his recent collections, Labi (2013) and Canticos: Apat na Boses (2013), received 2014 Philippine National Book Awards.
Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight (2012), which was published in the United States in 2015 by Flood Editions, and the collection Inside My Mother (2015). She won the 2017 Windham Campbell Prize in Poetry at Yale University.

Cosponsored with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa