New Essay in the Nov/Dec Issue of American Poetry Review

The fifth installment of Kazim's column in APR is now on newstands. "The Architecture of Loneliness" recounts Kazim's trip to Andalusia and discusses the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Yannis Ritsos, Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Cristina Peri Rossi.

Forthcoming in 2009: Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

Wesleyan University Press will publish this new book of prose in fall 2009. Stay tuned for more details.

Fall 2008 Reading Tour

October 3: The Putney School
Putney, VT


October 4-5: The Brattleboro Literary Festival
Brattleboro, VT


October 4: Reading with Michael Waters
Brattleboro, VT
2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Hooker Dunham Theater


October 17: Soul Mountain Retreat


October 19: Brookline Poetry Series
361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA


November 6: Reading with Katy Lederer
Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA
7 p.m., For more information, call 319-337-2681


November 7: Actual Kansas Reading Series, with Katy Lederer
7 p.m., Details to follow


November 8: The Clean Part Reading Series, with Katy Lederer
Lincoln, NE
Details to follow


November 9: Reading with Katy Lederer and Matthew Guenette
Avols Books, 315 W. Gorham Street, Madison, WI2 p.m., For more information, call 608-255-4730


November 11: A Tribute to Jane Cooper
Also featuring Jill Bialosky, Martha Collins, Galway Kinnell, Eva Kollisch, Beatrix Gates, Marie Howe, Jan Heller Levi, Thomas Lux & Jean Valentine
The New School, Theresa Lang Center, Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
7 p.m.


November 12: Reading with Marie Ponsot
Village Zendo, 588 Broadway, Suite 11087:15 p.m.


November 14: Reading with Myung Mi Kim
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor (btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
Reading followed by a panel discussion on DURA by Myung Mi Kim with Tan Lin, Warren Liu, and Cathy Park Hong


November 17: Baldwin Wallace College
For more details, contact skubasak@bw.edu


November 23: Main Street Reading Series,
8:00pm, Fava Gallery, Oberlin, OH


November 24: Kent State University-Stark
For more details, contact rmiltner@kent.edu

A new novel

Kazim's novel The Disappearance of Seth will appear in 2009 from Etruscan Press (www.etruscanpress.org).

Essay in American Poetry Review

"Ersatz Everything: The Value of Meaning," the fourth installment of Kazim's column has just been published in the July/August issue of the American Poetry Review.
 

 

Kazim Ali Online

Audio
Fishouse Audio: Kazim Ali

Poems
Downloadable Chapbook: River Road
American Poetry Review

Essays
Poetry Is Dangerous
Poetry Foundation: On Poetics
On Yoko Ono and Eminem
Duo Duo Review

Faculty Pages
Oberlin College Faculty: Kazim Ali
University of Southern Maine: Kazim Ali

Contact
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