Alexander and Hutchinson
January 24, 2012
Seminar: 5:00 PM | Lannan Center (New North 408)
Reading: 8:00 PM | Copley Formal Lounge
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Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice
Georgetown University
New North 306
Washington, DC 20057
Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) was started as an annual event last year (2010) with the successful conduct of its inaugural edition in December. HLF is primarily aimed at showcasing Hyderabad as an important literary center of the country with its rich cultural history and tradition. With a surfeit of Universities, academic and cultural centers, defence and research institutions, and a large population of highly qualified professionals from across India drawn due to its emergence as an important IT, Biotech, Pharmaceutical and financial hub, the city’s modern cultural needs have to be satiated innovatively. HLF aims to do it. Admission – Free.
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Reading Meena Alexander
at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Friday October 28th 7:00 P.M.
Meena Alexander is an award winning poet who has published six volumes of poetry including Raw Silk,and Quickly Changing River, (TriQuarterly Northwestern Univeristy Press); her volume of essays Poetics of Dislocation (Michigan Poets on Poetry series); she is an editor of Indian Love Poems. Her awards include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Arts Council of England and American Council of Learned Societies. She is a distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. Click here for more information.
Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts 2011
Sept 30, Oct 1, Oct 2
3 days of readings, seminars, music and dance
FSALA-11 is primarily a Canadian arts festival, whose purpose is to present to the public the works of writers, musicians, and other artists. The panels and lectures will discuss vital topics on Canadian and South Asian arts. FSALA is as well a forum for the public to meet artists from across the country and for the artists to meet each other. More than 25 Canadian writers and musicians will be present. We are excited also to bring to the Festival seven renowned writers from South Asia and the US: Meena Alexander (US), Kamini Dandapani (US), Mahesh Dattani (India), Asif Farrukhi (Pakistan), Girish Karnad (India), Neerav Patel (India), and Harish Narang (India).
Co-organized by the Toronto South Asian Review and the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto.
The venue: The Munk School of Global Affairs and Trinity College are next to each other and centrally located in Toronto.
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October 1, 2011, 2:00 – 3:15 Readings
Campbell Room, Munk School of Global Affairs
Meena Alexander, Asif Farrukhi, Neerav Patel
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Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood
Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Nicole Cooley, Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Idra Novey, Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, Rachel Zucker, Cate Marvin, Erica Hunt
How do we theorize a poetics of motherhood? Attentive to divergent experiences of motherhood and using the maternal as a field that hovers outside neat categorization, this symposium will investigate the poetics of the maternal self and body through the experiences of women of color, adoptive mothers and single mothers.
Panel discussion with poets Meena Alexander, English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimiko Hahn, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College;Erica Hunt, independent scholar. Moderators: Nicole Cooley, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Leah Souffrant, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Followed by a poetry reading with Meena Alexander, Lee Ann Brown,Tina Chang, Nicole Cooley, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Kimiko Hahn, Erica Hunt, Cate Marvin, Idra Novey,Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, andRachel Zucker.
4:00: Panel Discussion
5:30: Reception
6:00: Poetry Reading
co-sponsored by the Poetics Group. Image (c) Jennifer Wroblewski.
Free and open to the public. All events take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th. The building and the venues are fully accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/ or call 212.817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu
American Literature Association
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 3:30-6:30
New Perspectives on the Works of Meena Alexander
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 3:30 – 4:50 pm (Essex North East)
Organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
Chair: Nicky Schildkraut, University of Southern California
1. “Home Ground and Borderlands,” Meena Alexander, City University of New York – The Graduate Center and Hunter College
2. “Meena Alexander: ‘Dislocation? The Place is the United States,’” Stephanie Han, City University of Hong Kong
3. “‘What if crossing a border one changed color, shape even?‘: Momentum and Metamorphosis in Meena Alexander’s Poetry,” Trevor Lee, City University of New York – The Graduate Center
4. “Location and Dislocation of a Fragmented-Self: Meena Alexander‘s Writings within a Diasporic Space,” Divya Girishkumar, Cardiff University
A reading by Meena Alexander, Bushra Rehman, and Jee Leong Koh
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 5:10-6:30 (Essex North Center)
Contemporary South Asian and Asian American Poetry: A Creative Reading Organized by The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies In this creative reading that seeks to highlight poets of South Asian and Asian American descent, these three poets write in ways that challenge existing tropes and forms. Poet and novelist Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, will read poetry selections from her book Quickly Changing River. Poets Bushra Rehman and Jee Leong Koh will also read from their published poetry. Rehman‘s poetry has been featured most recently in the 2010 anthology, Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, and Koh has published two books of poetry, Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth, and his third book is forthcoming in March 2011.
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)
Thursday, 19 May 2011 @ 7:00 PM
Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Meena Alexander, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, & Nicole Sealey. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.
Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.
For more information, see Chin Music.
Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Italy at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscori during March 2011, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. (Read More)
For the 2011 Italian Poetry Festival – Dire Poesia website, click here.
March 17, Sala di Lettura B, Ca’ Bernardo Dorsoduro 3199 – 30123.
Venezia. 3.30-4.30 pm I.P. FRONTIERS AND CULTURES: Europe and the Americas. Intra and Intercontinental Migrations.
Seminar 2: “Multicultural poetry in America” poet Meena Alexander (Graduate Center CUNY) discusses multicultural poetry in the Americas with Prof. Shaul Bassi (University of Ca’ Foscari Venice) – introduction by Prof. Daniela Ciani Forza (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari).
March 22, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dorsoduro 1405 – Zattere.
Centro Interdipartimentale Studi Balcanici Internazionali.
Series: Constructing the Past in the Present: Remember/Restore/Archive in a Globalized World (2nd Edition – 2011).
Meena Alexander (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) Postcolonial Memory.
March 28, 12pm. Common Room, Palazzo Cosulich, Dorsoduro 1405.
Professor Meena Alexander (Graduate Center – City University of New York) meeting with graduate students.
March 28, 5pm. Auditorium Santa Margherita, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia.
Keynote lecture and poetry reading at the close of ‘Language and Power’ symposium organized by Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati and Limes, Journal of International Politics.
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Update: Meena Vagante
January 28 (Friday)
7:00 pm
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
Join us at KGB in January for a special night of readings with Meena Alexander and Christian Barter. Free and open to the public.
Meena Alexander was born in India and raised both there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to England to study. She has published six volumes of poetry, most recently Quickly Changing River (Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, 2008). Her book Poetics of Dislocation appears in the University of Michigan, Poets on Poetry series, 2009. She has received awards from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations, and from the Rockefeller foundation for a residency at Bellagio. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Christian Barter’s first book of poems, The Singers I Prefer, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Georgia Review, North American Review, The American Scholar and other magazines, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. He has received residency fellowships from Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and in 2008-2009 he was a Hodder Fellow in Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is the supervisor of the trail crew at Acadia National Park.
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