From Baghdad to Detroit: Four Poems

In honor of April as Poetry Month, the Chaldean Cultural Center will host an event at the West Bloomfield Public Library on April 13 from 1-3pm. The event, held in the meeting room of the library at 4600 Walnut Lake Road, features four Iraqi-born women including Weam Namou, director of the Chaldean Cultural Center, and Dunya Mikhail, poet, author, and professor at Oakland University. The women are in a short 10-minute documentary which was funded by the Knight Foundation.

The film will screen for the first time on April 13, followed by discussion and poetry reading. The documentary includes a segment of each poet, in her home / work, or in certain significant locations with the poets reciting their poems which focus on the Chaldean / Iraqi American experience.

More information may be found at westbloomfield.librarycalendar.com/event/baghdad-detroit-four-poems-poetry-iraqi-born-women-976