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Majda Gama
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Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
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Class of 1990! There’s my first DM on the right.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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An evening walk brought some peace of mind.
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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We are pleased to invite you to the Café Muse Literary Salon on Monday, November 3, 2025 at 7:15 pm. for our program featuring poets Emily Hyland & Megan Pinto. Please use the registration link below to receive the Zoom link for the reading. sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...
On an orange backdrop the bold and black letters of the headline spell Café Muse Literary Salon. A headshot in the center left is of the poet Emily Hyland, a smiling woman with long, straight brown hair and glasses. The headshot on the center right is of the poet Megan Pinto, a brunette with wavier, maybe curly, dark brown hair and a smile. Below the headshots is their names in white font and the date of November 3, 2025.
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I love @agnimagazine.bsky.social so it’s a dream to be in here! Available at most bookstores, like a lit journal should be. My gratitude to the editors 🧿
A glossy cover of the literary magazine AGNI issue 102. The art cover image is of a gray weathered tree stump with red yarn tucked away in the hole at the center of all the stump. The red yarn also trickles outwards as if spreading. Table of contents of AGNI issue 102 which includes Bruce Bond, Denise Duhamel, Majda Gama, Brenda Hillman, Leila Farjami, and Jenny Molberg among others
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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This was popular! Right in the middle of all the closed museums on the Smithsonian
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Snipers over Pennsylvania Ave #NoKings #FreeDC
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Describe your Bluesky account with a single image
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The coolest thing ever, my first Tiny Desk Concert @npr.org and for a band I adore. More pics to come when it’s allowed in December.
October 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Heck of a week for books! Look at these lovelies from #JihyunYun, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social & @emanquotah.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Photo by @jillkitchen.bsky.social !
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Sunday! Free in DC. Foggy Bottom West End Main Street (FBWE) and Litbox are excited to present the first-ever Foggy Bottom Book Crawl, a free, walkable literary event set across venues in the historic Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington D.C. It will occur Sunday, Sept. 21 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
September 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Recorded my edition of the Fall for the Book podcast today, look at this fantastic program! I’m out in December but September is out now so give Natalia Theodoridou a listen, and read Sour Cherry!
September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Total insanity, this is happening at the Kennedy Center tonight
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Due to a technical snafu Café Muse with Nancy Miller Gomez and Sahar Muradi will now be Friday the 12th! Register here for the link sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...
September 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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My labor day weekend visit to DC showed me a vision of the America I hope we can achieve someday.
August 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I’m on an AWP panel next spring in Baltimore! “Choice and the Lyric Body”, a multi-genre discussion moderated by Amanda Shaw with Joanna Fuhrman, Sandra Beasley, Kyoko Mohri and myself. Join us for a timely, expansive, and truthful discussion around choice and how it shapes a literary life.
Panelists of diverse backgrounds will engage in a craft-based discussion about how the choice to be child-free informs our art, including what it took to be “successful” at our craft. If choice is a spectrum, how do we write past stereotypes about people without children without stigmatizing other reproductive choices? We will share multi-genre work, along with craft tips about tone, the lyric I, and how to challenge stock narratives of caregiving to include communal and ecological stewardship. Speaker(s): Presenter: Majda Gama Moderator: Amanda Shaw Presenter: JOANNA FUHRMAN Presenter: Kyoko Mori Presenter: Sandra Beasley
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Roses are red
Violets are a sensation
Screen shot of a substack titled “Can Sex with Rightists Solve Polarization?”
July 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Bumblebee with pollen bloomers on a lavender-colored wild bergamot blossom. The wild bergamot is lush, and in early stages of blooming its tubular flowers.
July 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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We are pleased to invite you to Café Muse Literary Salon both in person and online, July 7, 2025 at 7:00 pm. Our featured poets are Adam Chiles, Eileen Sirota and Majda Gama. Join us at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD or online. Register here sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...
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June 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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We are pleased to invite you to Café Muse Literary Salon both in person and online, July 7, 2025 at 7:00 pm. Our featured poets are Adam Chiles, Eileen Sirota and Majda Gama. Join us at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD or online (Register here sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...)
Cafe Muse Literary Salon 7/7/25 7pm. Featured readers Adam Chiles, Eileen Sirota, and Majda Gama will read poetry both live at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD and virtually on zoom.
June 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Please join us June 12 7pm Eastern. us02web.zoom.us/j/8628378875...
Graphic in saffron yellow for The Wandering Aengus Press online reading series. June 12 7pm Eastern features Barret Baumgart and Majda Gama. The covers of their books “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” and “Yuck” are situated beneath headshots.
June 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Join us the Saturday night @ the Union Market location of @politicsprose.bsky.social with gratitude to @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social !
6pm Panel: Identity & Belonging in Literature. Moderated by Tope Folarin and featuring authors Varun Gauri, Patricia Coral, and Majda Gama
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Come hang with us? Rita Dove! Snd lots of new poetry to be had this Friday evening, 4/25/25, at Red Room NYC #Coupletnyc #KGBBAR
Graphic shows headshots of the five poets reading at KGB Bar’s Red Room on Friday April 25th from 5-7pm in New York City. The poets are: Rita Dove, Alina Stefanescu, Abi, Pollokoff, Julia Kolchinsky, Jennifer Espinoza, and Majda Gama. The poet Leah Umansky hosts.
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Black chokeberry blossoms and coral honeysuckle plant in bloom by a suburban garage
April 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM