Dunya Mikhail: International Poets in Conversation

Poetry Lectures by Poetry Foundation

Sep 12, 201200:44:17Arts

American poet Katie Ford talks to Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail about how the experience of natural and human disasters inform their work.

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