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Inner Loop Panel: Identity and Belonging in Literature

Tope Folarin engages with local authors Patricia Coral, Majda Gama, and Varun Gauri to discuss the challenges and triumphs of self-identification

June 18, 2025

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May 20, 2025

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ARTWIFE x The Inner Loop: Majda Gama

ARTWIFE Magazine teamed up with The Inner Loop to host a series of interviews with DC-area authors.

May 12, 2025

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Washington Independent Review of Books essay on how the DMV helped forge my path as a “real” poet.

2024-25 Series

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The Poet and the Poem

2024-25 Series, Interview/Reading The Poet and the Poem from The Library of Congress with Grace Cavalieri.

June 10, 2024

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It’s Not Like I Can Adopt a Country: Siew Interviews Majda Gama

David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! In this interview, Majda Gama talks about being an accidental Virginian, what makes a lifestyle, cats from the Middle East, and how poetry and prose party differently.