Staff favorite: Jaquira Díaz & Kaveh Akbar

 

Staff Favorite: Jaquira Díaz & Kaveh Akbar Tuesday, December 1  7:00 PM  Streamed Online FREE!   Register for Free Dear Friends,  This holiday season, City of Asylum has swan-dived into our archives to bring you some of our most memorable programs for our new series "Staff Pick Favorites.' Tonight, we'll be revisiting an evening of readings & discussion celebrating the work of Jaquira Díaz and Kaveh Akbar.  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. Read their bios here.  The original reading in February of this year was to a standing-room only crowd. It was a powerful evening with stirring readings, and excellent questions from the audience. We are thrilled to revisit and share with you again or for the first time.    Catch a sneak peek of Tuesday's program.   Register for Free   Winner of a Whiting Award for Nonfiction, Jaquira Díaz's Ordinary Girls has garnered much praise. "[Ordinary Girls] belongs on your must-read lists. Díaz is a masterful writer..." —O: The Oprah Magazine "This brutally honest coming-of-age story is a painful yet illuminating memoir, a testament to resilience in the face of scarcity, a broken family, substance abuse, sexual assault, mental illness, suicide and violence." —New York Times Book Review   "Incredible . . .  Beautiful . . . Gorgeous and propulsive prose." —NBC / Today (Isaac Fitzgerald)      "Akbar has what every poet needs: the power to make, from emotions that others have felt, memorable language that nobody has assembled before." —Stephanie Burt, The Yale Review     "You can open this stunning debut, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, anywhere and find the critical tenderness that permeates Kaveh Akbar's work. The work here means to go out on limbs..." —Fanny Howe    "An outstanding book of poetry... unknowable and always beautiful." - Roxane Gay   Register for Free   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people. We're working hard to make our new virtual home accessible.    If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.   Click here to contact us about accessibility requirements     Make a gift to City of Asylum today     Copyright © 2020 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212