| | | Thursday, February 6
7:00 pm
Kaveh Akbar & Jaquira Diaz
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
40 W. North Avenue
FREE | | | | | Two searing memoirs from Iranian-born poet Kaveh Akbar and Puerto Rican born essayist Jaquira Díaz. The two artists grapple with issues of home, violence, and climbing your way out of despair. They visit Alphabet City to read from their new work and discuss the incredibly intimate process of putting life's most transitional moments to word. Pittsburgh based poet Steffan Triplett will moderate the discussion.
Presented in partnership with Chatham University's Creative Writing MFA. | | | | | | | | Jaquira Díaz's work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Fader, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and included in The Best American Essays 2016. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Kenyon Review, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She splits her time between Montréal and Miami Beach. | | | | Kaveh Akbar is the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, & Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, & elsewhere. | | | | At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.
All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible. Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs.
If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us. | | | | | |
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