2010 Festival
The second annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Festival was held on Sunday, April 18, 2010 at Page-Walker Arts & History Center in Cary, North Carolina. Prof. Mutlu Konuk Blasing of Brown University, who is well known with her translations of Nazim's poetry was the invited speaker of the festival. The poetry competition organized as part of the festival received over 500 poems from 175 poets. The selection committee included Kathryn Stripling Byer, Greg Dawes, Joseph Donahue, Jaki Shelton Green, and Hatice Örün Öztürk. The winning poets were invited to read their poems at the festival. Jaki Shelton-Green, Jeffery Beam and Joe Donahue were the poets of this year's poetry spotlight. A poetry workshop was hosted by Christopher Salerno.
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2011 Festival
The third annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Festival will be held on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at Page-Walker Arts & History Center in Cary, North Carolina.
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