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

Diagram on the page of book of a black, right angled triangle. The sides are titled metaphor, metonymy, and (kenning).
“Requiem For A Barber” by Jan Wagner, in this week’s New Yorker, translated by American poet David Keplinger.
Star Trek: The Next Generation graphic with an episode titled “The Plums in the Icebox”.
Dwarf crested Iris plant with a few miniature purple blossoms
A spring wildflower in bloom with dangling blossoms that look like white falling stars
Dwarf Crested Iris, a native plant of the Mid-Atlantic, leafed out with arcing green leaves and deep purple flower buds at the tip of some leaves.
A native Virginia bluebell plant emerging from leaf litter with a pinkish bud just appearing amongst tender green leaves
A filigree cut white crescent moon hangs sideways with three eastern style lanterns hanging off of it. The crescent is also lightly strung with softly glowing white lights. Cursive text above it says Eid Mubarak. Below the text is Islamic patterning such as you’d see in the tile work of a mosque’s dome.
A poetry book is pictured on a blanketed lap. The book of poetry is called “The Thankless Paths to Freedom” by Medbh McGuckian
National guard patrolling in front of the Department Of Justice where a large fascistic banner of Trump’s face hangs over the enterance.
A poetry book titled Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best by Jane Zwart is placed on a blanketed lap with a design of black and white chevron stripes.
1/17, 2pm, A Literary Celebration of Muslim American Heritage Month, Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library with Authors Eman Quotah and Majda Gama REGISTER: mcpl.events/muslim-american Quotah will discuss her new visceral and captivating horror debut, The Night is Not for You, and her earlier family saga set in Saudi Arabia and the United States, Bride of the Sea. Gama will engage around her body of poetry, including the Winner of the 2023 Wandering Aengus Press prize, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls. It is bound to be a captivating conversation that you will not want to miss!
The cover of the album Mezzanine by Massive Attack.
My mother is the blonde woman in the far background assessing the worth of her Christmas tree. The trees are sold from the back of a truck.
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.
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.
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
Screen shot of a substack titled “Can Sex with Rightists Solve Polarization?”
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.
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