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Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world. Based in the President’s Office, the Center brings attention to a traditional domain of academic research, but sees poetry as a current practice rather than as a field of historical research. The Center recognizes that “art’s social presence,” in the phrase of Adrienne Rich, is vital to contemporary culture; that poetry, or writing more generally, traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought: it reconfigures these fields according to the designs of imagination. The Lannan Center hosts Readings and Talks throughout the academic year. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

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2024 Lannan Literary Festival | An Evening with Sara Nović

March 20, 2024 • Lannan Center

On March 20, 2024, bestselling author and deaf rights’ activist Sara Nović talked about her writing life and novelTrue Biz, with the Washington Post‘s Amanda Morris. This event was coponsored by the Disability Cultural Center and ASL interpreted.

Sara Nović is the author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz. Her other books are Girl at War, which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and America is Immigrants. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation, and is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.

Amanda Morris is a disability reporter for The Washington Post who has trailblazed on this beat. Before joining The Post in 2022, she was the inaugural disability reporting fellow for the New York Times and previously covered science, politics and national news for outlets like the Arizona Republic, the Associated Press, and NPR. She uses her experiences as a hard of hearing woman with two deaf parents to inform her coverage.

Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.