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Please join us for our reading with Indran Amirthanayagam, Sara Cahill Marron, and Dick Lourie.

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About Indran Amirthanayagam

Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He was raised in Sri Lanka, London, and Honolulu. Amirthanayagam has authored numerous poetry collections, including The Elephants of Reckoning (1993), Ceylon, R.I.P. (2001), The Splintered Face (2008), Uncivil War (2013), and Coconuts On Mars (2019). He writes, translates, and publishes poetry and essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.

About Sara Cahill Marron

Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet and author living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2021). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Lunch Ticket, West Trade Review, Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravitas, Atlas + Alice, The Write Launch, Cordella, FLARE the Flagler Review, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman and others. Links to read her work can be found under the Recent Publications tab. Sara hosts virtual readings for Beltway Poetry Quarterly with her partner in poetry, Indran Amirthanayagam. She periodically is available for editing projects and specializes in creative fiction and poetry.

Check her website here.

About Dick Lourie

He is the author of the poetry collections Calls on the Dream Telephone (1968), Stumbling (1974), Anima (1978), Ghost Radio (1998), and If the Delta Was the Sea (2009), a collection of poems based on the history and music of Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of the Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, where Lourie has performed with international blues star Big Jack Johnson. He has also released two CDs based on the poems in his books —combining his sax playing and spoken word with a blues band—titled Ghost Radio Blues (2000) and If the Delta Was the Sea (2014). His poem “Forgiving Our Fathers” was featured in the movie Smoke Signals.

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