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A Kalamazoo College alumna<\/a> has undertaken a position noteworthy of recognition in April, which serves as National Poetry Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets<\/a> in 1996. It has since become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers<\/a> and poets celebrating poetry. And now, Dani Badra \u201908 is the poet laureate of Fairfax, Virginia, a role she relishes given that she provides her fellow Fairfax residents with a way to pursue optimism and faith in life through the written word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPoetry helps provide a deeper meaning to both difficult and beautiful and beautifully difficult things,\u201d Badra said. With the difficulties, for example, \u201cI think of the poem Amanda Gorman read at President Biden\u2019s inaugural address that people across the nation remember. She was reading a poem days after the insurrection right where it happened. At that moment, her poem provided some meaning, some deeper thought that gave people hope, and helped us reinterpret where we are as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badra appreciates the way that the poet laureate position speaks to her creative side. Fairfax established its poet laureate position in 2020 through ArtsFairfax, a nonprofit organization designated as the county\u2019s local arts agency. Since then, a chosen community member has served as a literary arts ambassador, promoting poetry in the county, region<\/a> and state. She was selected for the role last October and will serve until 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supported through funding from the county, Badra has established a Poetry in the Parks program. In April, as a part of Arab American Heritage Month, she is conducting a poetry reading followed by a ghazal workshop to create an awareness for the lyric poems, which are common in Middle Eastern culture. She will conduct more poetry readings in June for Pride Month, in August for a Poetry Beneath the Stars workshop outdoors, and in November for a guided poetry workshop conducted by a naturalist at a local wetland area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Badra is creating \u201cpoetry plaques\u201d that she hopes will be used as a long-term resource. Plaques placed in nature often have information about flora and fauna, but these will have a poem related to the region or the area\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey will include a poem, a bio of the poet, some writing prompts for people to engage in and a QR code where county residents can submit their own writing inspired by that location,\u201d Badra said. \u201cWe\u2019re creating not only some environmental engagement, but some creative products as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from K, Badra earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from George Mason University, where she was the poetry editor of So to Speak, a<\/a> feminist literary and arts journal, and an intern for Split This Rock, a national network of socially engaged poets witnessing injustice and provoking social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her poems have appeared in publications such as the Cincinnati Review, Guesthouse, Mizna and Beltway Poetry Quarterly among others. She also has led writing workshops at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, OutWrite DC and in high schools. She has been a featured reader for Split This Rock\u2019s Sunday Kind of Love series, a judge for Brave New Voices in DC, and a participant in Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, a festival commemorating the 2007 bombing of a historic book market in Baghdad, Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badra\u2019s first chapbook, Dialogue with the Dead<\/em> (Finishing Line Press, 2015), was largely inspired<\/a> by her older sister, Rachal, who graduated from K herself in 2005, before passing from an undiagnosed genetic heart condition in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fairfax County Executive Bryan Hill (left) and Chairman Jeffrey McKay congratulate Danielle Badra ’08 on being named Fairfax’s poet laureate. Photo by A.E. Landes Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Tong (left), who was the first poet laureate for Fairfax, Virginia, congratulates Kalamazoo College alumna Dani Badra ’08 on succeeding her. Photo by A.E. Landes Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fairfax Poet Laureate and Kalamazoo College alumna Dani Badra ’08. Photo by Holly Mason.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen she died, I found a folder of poems that I didn\u2019t know she\u2019d been writing,\u201d Badra said. \u201cWhen I found them, I knew I wanted to publish them somehow. They weren\u2019t<\/a> really in a publishable format, so through them, I created a much-needed dialogue with her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like the chap book, Badra\u2019s manuscript, Like We Still Speak <\/em>(University of Arkansas Press, 2021), was inspired by her sister. It earned the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. It was also named a semi-finalist for the Khayrallah Prize and listed in Entropy\u2019s Best of 2020-2021: Poetry Books and Poetry Collections list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike We Still Speak<\/em> improves upon the ideas and polyvocal poetic forms behind Dialogue with the Dead<\/em> and expands on them to include more voices, like my wife, and my mom and dad,\u201d Badra said. K Professor Emerita \u201cDi Seuss<\/a> is in there, too.\u201d She credits Seuss as playing a pivotal role in her development as a poet and expressed gratitude for the years at K she spent under her tutelage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badra works full-time as a technical writer and management analyst for Fairfax County Land Development Services, and she appreciates the opportunities that come with serving as a poet laureate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe poet laureate position appealed to me because it allows me the opportunity to pursue my heart’s passion,\u201d Badra said. \u201cIn a way, I can also bring that same passion to other people in my community. I enjoy engaging with people as well as with these outdoor spaces. At the end of the day, people will take away from the programming what they do. I hope that I just inspire a group of people, however many that is, to want to walk around in nature and write about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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