Oct-12-2010 04:30PM - 06:00PM

Newhouse Center for the Humanities
237 Green Hall
Wellesley, MA

Poetry Reading: Meena Alexander and Tomaž Šalamun

Author of six volumes of poetry including, Illiterate Heart (which won the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River, Meena Alexander is the editor of Indian Love Poems. Her autobiography, Fault Lines, chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books, was revised in 2003 to incorporate new material. She is the author of two novels and two academic studies on early English Romanticism. Her latest book, Poetics of Dislocation, appeared in 2009 in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. Her fellowships include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Arts Council of England. She has served on the jury of the Neustadt International Award in Literature and as an Elector, American Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South Asian Literary Association for contributions to American Literature, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY. A book of essays on her work, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander (eds Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts) has just appeared from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (www.meenaalexander.com)

Wellesley College
Newhouse Center for the Humanities
237 Green Hall
Wellesley, MA

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