# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening with Fatimah Asghar
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Eckerd College National Poetry Month Reading

Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer, Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer who cares less about genre and instead prioritizes the story that needs to be told and finds the best vehicle to tell it. They are the author of “Daughter of the Mountains,” “If They Come For Us,” “When We Were Sisters,” and the chapbook “After.” Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. In 2017, they were a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and listed on Forbes’s 30 under 30 list. Ashgar's reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase from Tombolo Books. 

Free and open to the public.
Location: James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences, Eckerd College campus
Map and directions: https://www.eckerd.edu/directions 

Supported by the Dr. Peter Meinke Endowment for Creative Writing
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/gulfport/an-evening-with-fatimah-asghar/200029933409138
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, performances, Entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Gulfport
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 4200 54th Ave S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33711
- **lat**: 27.71864
- **long**: -82.69229
- **full address**: 4200 54th Ave S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33711, 4200 54th Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 33711-4744, United States, Gulfport

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Evening with Fatimah Asghar being held?
  - **A:** An Evening with Fatimah Asghar takes place on Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 4200 54th Ave S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33711, 4200 54th Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 33711-4744, United States, Gulfport.
- **Q**: Who is organizing An Evening with Fatimah Asghar?
  - **A:** An Evening with Fatimah Asghar is organized by Eckerd College.

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