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Professors Rula Jurdi-Abisaab and Michelle Hartman from the Institute of Islamic Studies will lead a discussion on breaking poems by Suheir Hammad.

鈥淚n breaking poems Suheir Hammad departs from her previous poetry books with a bold and explosive style to do what the best poets have always done: create a new language. Using 鈥渂reak鈥� as a trigger for every poem, Hammad destructs, constructs, and reconstructs the English language for us to hear the sound of a breath, a woman鈥檚 body, a land, a culture, falling apart, broken, and put back together again.鈥� breaking poems was the recipient of the 2009 Arab American Book Award in Poetry, and of the 2009 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.