The Poet and the Poem 2019-20 Series

Featured Seema Reza

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Seema Reza is the author of the poetry collection A Constellation of Half-Lives (Write Bloody Publishing)andthe memoir When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press). Seema has led writing workshops within correctional facilities, military and civilian hospitals, elementary and secondary schools, and universities. She is the Executive Director of Community Building Art Works, a unique arts organization that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. Reza’s work with veterans is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet. In 2015 she was awarded the Col John Gioia Patriot Award by the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore for her work with service members. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, she has had writing online and in print in Bellevue Literary Review, The LA Review, The Feminist Wire, The Offing, and Entropyamong others. Case studies from her work with military populations have appeared in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans.

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