Kathy Engel: Life Support - February 7, 2025

Poet, educator, and activist, Kathy Engel will read from her new book: Dear Inheritors and the anthology she co-edited with Kamal Boullata, We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon.

Introduction by Aracelis Girmay, poet, children’s book writer, educator, editor. Her most recent book of poems is The Black Maria.

Arabic music by Palestinian musician, Ibrahim Safi.

Kathy Engel’s books include Ruth’s Skirts, 2007 and The Lost Brother Alphabet, 2020. She is the founder of MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, the former President and co-founder of Riptide Communications, co-founder of East End Women in Black, Poets for Ayiti, among other groups.

Her new book of poems and personal prose, Dear Inheritors and We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon are available at ShopPalestine.org

About Kathy Engel

Kathy Engel is a poet, essayist, educator, organizer and cultural worker. She currently serves as Associate Arts Professor in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Art and Public Policy, and Master’s Program in Arts Politics. Her latest poetry collection, The Lost Brother Alphabet, was published by Get Fresh Books in 2020.

For over 40 years Kathy has worked in many of the major social justice, peace, and human rights movements in the U.S. and in partnership with international groups. She has co-founded numerous organizations, including MADRE (1983), an international women’s human rights group, which she directed for five years. She also co-founded the Hayground School; East End Women in Black; Kickass Artists, Poets for Ayiti; and, with the poet Alexis De Veaux, Lyrical Democracies and The Center for Poetic Healing.

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