[Yale-readings] 5-2 / 5- 3: Language for a New Century

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Please celebrate Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia,
>Middle East and Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co.) at two events on Friday, May 2nd
>and Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
>
>The Helix International Poetry Festival
>Friday, May 2nd, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
>Founders Hall, Davidson Building, CCSU http://www.ccsu.edu
>
>Launch Party for Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia,
>Middle East and Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co.)
>Saturday, May 3rd, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
>Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library http://www.hplct.org/
>
>Featuring poets Meena Alexander, Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Mong Lan,
>Khaled Mattawa, Aimee  Nezhukumatathil, Wang Ping, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar,
>Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Kirpal Singh.
>
>The event is co-sponsored by a CCSU Diversity Initiative Grant, the CCSU
>media board, CCSU Student Activities, the CCSU Alumni Association and the
>Connecticut Center for the Book at the Hartford Public Library.
>
>PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
>
>Meena Alexander's six volumes of poetry include Illiterate Heart (2002,
>winner of the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk (2004) and Quickly Changing
>River (2008) all published by TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University
>Press. She is the author of the memoir Fault Lines and editor of Indian Love
>Poems. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the
>Graduate Centre, City University of New York. Currently she is working on a
>new book of poems and a book of essays on poetry, migration and memory.
>
>Tina Chang is the author of Half-Lit Houses. Her poems have appeared in
>American Poet, Indiana Review, McSweeney¹s, The Missouri Review,
>Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, among others.  Her poems have
>been anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American
>Literature, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and in Poetry 30:
>Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of
>American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein
>Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van
>Lier Foundation among others. She is co-editor of Language for a New
>Century: Contemporary Poetry of the Middle East, Asia and Beyond  (W.W.
>Norton in 2008). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College.
>
>Nathalie Handal most recent books include, The Lives of Rain and Language
>for a New Century (Norton, 2008). Her work has been translated into more
>than fifteen languages and she has been featured on NPR, KPFK, PBS Radio as
>well as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mail &
>Guardian, The Jordan Times and Il Piccolo. Handal has been involved either
>as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical and/or film
>productions.
>
>Vietnamese-American poet, writer, painter, photographer, and Argentine tango
>dancer, Mong-Lan is the author of Song of the Cicadas (Juniper Prize), Why
>is the Edge Always Windy?, Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art, and Love Poem to
>Tofu & Other Poems. She was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford
>University and a Fulbright Fellow in Vietnam.  She has taught at the
>University of Arizona, Stanford University, and the University of Maryland
>in Tokyo. Visit: www.monglan.com
>
>Khaled Mattawa is the author of three books of poem, Ismailia Eclipse,
>Zodiac of Echoes, and Amorisco. He has translted seven volumes of
>contempoarary Arabic poetry and co-edited two anthologies of Arab American
>literature. Receipiant of many awards for his poetry and translations,
>Mattawa teaches creative writing in the MFA (Creative Writing) program at
>the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
>
>Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano and Miracle
>Fruit (both from Tupelo Press), which was named Poetry Book of the Year by
>ForeWord Magazine, and the winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award. New
>work appears in Tin House, FIELD, and Prairie Schooner. She is associate
>professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia where she was awarded a Chancellor's
>Medal of Excellence and the Hagan Young Scholars Award.
>
>Wang Ping was born in China and came to USA in 1985. Her publications
>include American Visa (short stories, 1994), Foreign Devil (novel, 1996), Of
>Flesh and Spirit (poetry, 1998), The Magic Whip (poetry, 2003), The Last
>Communist Virgin (stories, 2007), all from Coffee House. New Generation:
>Poetry from China Today (1999), an anthology she edited and co-translated,
>is published by Hanging Loose. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
>(2000, University of Minnesota Press) won the Eugene Kayden Award for the
>Best Book in Humanities. In 2002, Random House published its paperback. She
>had a solo multi-media exhibition on the Three Gorges Dam "Behind the Gate:
>After the Flooding of the Three Gorges" in 2007 at Janet Fine Art Gallery,
>Macalester College. She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts,
>New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts,
>Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Artist Fellowship, and Lannan
>Foundation Fellowship. She is associate professor of English at Macalester
>College.
>
>Sudeep Sen studied at Delhi University & as Inlaks Scholar received an MS
>from Columbia University Journalism School. Awards/fellowships include:
>Hawthornden (UK); Pushcart nomination, BreadLoaf, Ledig House (all USA);
>Pleiades (Macedonia) & NLPVF (Amsterdam). Writer-in-residence at Scottish
>Poetry Library (Edinburgh) & Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Poetry
>volumes include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins),
>Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies & Rain. Poetry translated into 25
>languages, appear in anthologies by Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury,
>Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman, Macmillan & Granta. Other writings
>appear in TLS, Guardian, Independent, Herald, London Magazine & Literary
>Review. Editor of Atlas, editorial director of Aark Arts, he lives in New
>Delhi. [www.sudeepsen.net]
>
>Dedicated to examining the confluence of science and art, Pireeni
>Sundaralingam has held national fellowships both in cognitive science and in
>poetry. Born in Sri Lanka and educated at Oxford, she is a former professor
>of Cognitive Development, and has held research posts at Cornell, UCLA and
>MIT. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, The
>Progressive (USA), The Guardian newspaper (UK), and Masala (Macmillan,
>2005), as well as in college texts such as Three Genres (Prentice Hall,
>2006). A PEN USA Fellow, her poetry has  featured in such places as the
>Barbican Theatre in London, UN Headquarters and the International Museum of
>Women, as well as on national radio in Sweden, Ireland, England, and the US.
>
>Kirpal Singh has long been regarded as one of the most powerful creative
>vocies to emerge from Southeast Asia. From as early as 1976 Kirpal has been
>published all over the world and he has been consistently receiving invites
>to give Readings, Talks, Seminars, Workshops at some of the world's most
>prestigious festivals and literary events (Edinburgh, York, Cambirdge,
>Toronto,) and he has lectured at numerous universties including Yale, MIT,
>Georgtown, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Toronto. Today, in addition to being
>a highly respected writer, Kirpal is internationally known as a Creativity
>Guru after the runaway success of his last book THINKING HATS & COLOURED
>TURBANS: Creativity Across Cultures(Prentice-Hall, 2004)
>
>
>
>***************
>Ravi Shankar
>Ed., http://www.drunkenboat.com
>Poet-in-Residence
>Associate Professor
>CCSU - English Dept.
>860-832-2766
>shankarr at ccsu.edu

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