Event Dime

Poetry Book Club: Anna Akhmatova, Requiem & Poem without a Hero

When:

August 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Where:

304 S. Elm St. Greensboro, NC 27401

Source:

Scuppernong Books – Events

Image With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait―lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for sevent