Intimate Geopolitics: Reverberations of Empire Across Centuries and Continents

This panel explores the rocketing and ricocheting of American foreign policies across continents, oceans, generations, diasporas, and language. With readings and discussion, our poetic, nonfiction, and fiction panelists will discuss literary responses to US interventions in Afghanistan, Palestine, and the Philippines and reflect on the ways that US bombs and drones unleashed in "faraway" wars, far from the popular American imagination, invade our bodies, memories, families, homes, and dreams within US borders and beyond. This panel takes place on October 7th, the anniversary of the US's invasion of Afghanistan. Featured authors include Hala Alyan (author of the novel The Arsonists’ City and the poetry collection The Moon That Turns You Back), Sahar Muradi (author of the poetry collection OCTOBERS), Jen Soriano (author of Nervous: Essays on Heritage & Healing), and Maine Lit Fest Fellow Leila Nadir. Free event. Register for Zoom Link. Authors’ books can be purchased HERE thanks to Devaney Doak & Garrett Books.