Thursday, March 30, 2017

9TH ANNUAL NAZIM HIKMET POETRY FESTIVAL



You are invited to celebrate National Poetry Month at the
9TH ANNUAL NAZIM HIKMET POETRY FESTIVAL
Sunday April 9, 2017
1 PM – 6 PM
Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary, NC 27513
** Free Admission **
Program Highlights

Winners of the 2017 Nazım Hikmet Poetry Competition
Winners
Threa Almontaser, Kirun Kapur, Chelsea Krieg, Victoria Reynolds and Kyle Rosko
Honorable Mentions
Elizabeth Gargano, Terry Savoie and Matthew Wimberley

Honoring Polish luminary Wislawa Szymborska
poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

Speaker and Panelists
Jan Teller, Joseph Donahue, Renata Lader and Grazyna Obrapalska
Music
Pianist Anatoly Larkin playing Chopin and other Polish classical music

Poetry Spotlight
ERDAĞ GÖKNAR
Reading from his latest book "NOMADOLOGIES"
Organized by the American Turkish Association of North Carolina (www.ata-nc.org)
Hosted by Town of Cary (www.townofcary.org),
Additional support provided by
Duke Global Education Office/Duke in Istanbul (http://globaled.duke.edu/)
 NC Poetry Society (http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org)





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