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Poetry and Resistance: Exploring the Poetry of Ana Blandiana - w/ Vocales Verticales

Location Wheaton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD.
Date Saturday, December 27, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Duration   1 hours, 30 minutes
Link https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/15183555#branch
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Join Vocales Verticales for an afternoon of poetry, writing, and ideas. How can we use poetry as a tool for resistance? Discover how others did it and write some poems. (Poesía y Resistencia en Español, English, y Spanglish.)
 
Ana Blandiana, born in 1942 in Timișoara, Romania, is a renowned Romanian poet, writer, and translator. A dissident, she faced censorship and was a key figure in Romania's 1989 anti-Soviet Communist uprising. A voice for democracy and human rights, her literary and activist legacy continues to inspire.

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