A reading by MEENA ALEXANDER, in Mumbai

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE

invites you, with your friends, to

A reading by MEENA ALEXANDER
from her new book, Quickly Changing River (2008) as well as recent, uncollected poems

The reading will be followed by a conversation between Ms Alexander and ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, poet, editor and member, Executive Committee of the PEN All-India Centre.

Date: 22 December 2008 (Monday)

Time: 6.15 pm

Place: Theosophy Hall (3rd floor), 40 New Marine Lines,

        Churchgate, Mumbai 400 020

MEENA ALEXANDER was born in Allahabad, and now lives and works in New York City.  Her six books of poetry include Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award, Raw Silk, and the recently published Quickly Changing River. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fault Lines and editor of Indian Love Poems (Everyman’s Library). She has also published two novels, Nampally Road (1991) and Manhattan Music (1997); a book of poems and essays, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (1996); and two academic studies, one of which is Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley (1989). Her book, Poetics of Dislocation, is forthcoming in Fall 2009 from the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry series.  She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.


Writes Maxine Hong Kingston of her work: “Meena Alexander sings of countries, foreign and familiar, places where the heart and spirit live, and places for which one needs a passport and a visa. Her voice guides us far away and back home.”

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