Book Launch with Author Miriam Calleja

Join us for the book launch of Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence by Miriam Calleja. Poetry written on two continents over 15 months takes us from island life in the Mediterranean to the American South. The poet finds refuge and understanding in watery dreamscapes; she calls to nature and the elements to piece together a path to where she is right now. What is she but a woman in constant translation?

Miriam Calleja gives herself and others permission to write. She is a nonfiction/fiction writer, translator, workshop host, and poet. She is the Maltese bilingual author of poetry collections Pomegranate Heart, Inside, Stranger Intimacy, the chapbooks Remember and The joy of the unknown fictitious monster, and the collaboration Luftmeer. Her essays and poems have appeared in Platform Review, Whale Road Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation and elsewhere. Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. She has read at the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival (Malta), Schamrock Festival for Women Poets (Germany), Poetry on the Lake (Italy), Wednesday Night Poets (online, US), and AWP 2023 (Seattle, US). Read more on miriamcalleja.com.

View Miriam’s portfolio at authory.com/miriamcalleja