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TITLE: Women Against Tyranny: Poems of the Resistance During the Holocaust
SPEAKER: Davi Walders
EVENT DATE: 05/12/2011
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 55 minutes
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DESCRIPTION:
Davi Walders speaks about her new book, "Women Against Tyranny: Poems of Resistance During the Holocaust."
Speaker Biography: Born and raised in Texas and Oklahoma, Davi Walders graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Since then, she has made her home in the Washington, D.C. area where she received an M.A. in Linguistics from the American University and continued graduate work in Human Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a writer and educator whose poetry and prose have appeared in more then than 200 publications, including The American Scholar, JAMA, Feminist Studies, Lilith, and Potomac Review. Her work is included in such anthologies as Worlds in Their Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall); Literature of Spirituality (MMM Publishing), Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press), Lonely Planet's Tales from Nowhere, and Traveler's Tales: Prague.