Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach featuring Brenda Gannam
Brenda J. Gannam is the featured poet this month.
As a student of French, Arabic, Russian, and German, Ms. Gannam has been influenced by the metaphysical, spiritual, and symbolist aspects of writers in those languages. Her work reveals the spiritual messages embedded in everyday phenomena, and her poems are written in both rhyming and free verse using copious alliteration, internal rhyme, sparse punctuation, and words and phrases from other languages. When read aloud, her poems resemble abstract or impressionist paintings, and often relate real-life events drawn from the media or personal experience.
Ms. Gannam, Arab-American, has been active in the New York creative community for more than 30 years. Her poetry and haiku have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, in print and online, and her voice was recorded and archived for the Remembering 9/11 Project. She has been an editor and contributor of poems and photographs to The Brownstone Poets annual anthologies, and has chaired the Spring Street Haiku Group and the Haiku Society of America New York Chapter. Ms. Gannam has won awards from The Anderie Poetry Press, The Haiku Society of America, The Kusamakura International Haiku Competition, and The Miami Poetry Festival Competition.
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Brenda J. Gannam is the featured poet this month.
As a student of French, Arabic, Russian, and German, Ms. Gannam has been influenced by the metaphysical, spiritual, and symbolist aspects of writers in those languages. Her work reveals the spiritual messages embedded in everyday phenomena, and her poems are written in both rhyming and free verse using copious alliteration, internal rhyme, sparse punctuation, and words and phrases from other languages. When read aloud, her poems resemble abstract or impressionist paintings, and often relate real-life events drawn from the media or personal experience.
Ms. Gannam, Arab-American, has been active in the New York creative community for more than 30 years. Her poetry and haiku have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, in print and online, and her voice was recorded and archived for the Remembering 9/11 Project. She has been an editor and contributor of poems and photographs to The Brownstone Poets annual anthologies, and has chaired the Spring Street Haiku Group and the Haiku Society of America New York Chapter. Ms. Gannam has won awards from The Anderie Poetry Press, The Haiku Society of America, The Kusamakura International Haiku Competition, and The Miami Poetry Festival Competition.
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