The PEN ALL-INDIA Centre, invites you to a reading by Jam Ismail

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE

invites you to a reading

by Hong Kong-based writer

JAM ISMAIL

Date: 7 June, 2007 (Thursday)

Time: 6.15 pm

Place: Theosophy Hall, 3rd Floor, 40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai.


ALL ARE WELCOME

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language-hobbyist JAM ISMAIL materialized in the british crown colony of hong kong, 1940.

contexts past & present include: koran, masculinities without men? (hongkong); ezra pound, sacred texts of the east (edmonton); frantz fanon, lisa robertson (vancouver); henry corbin, hamid dabashi (london); gayatri mantram (bangalore).

jam studied & taught in hong kong & western canadian departments of english. her graffiti include: ‘from diction air ’ (1989), ‘from scared texts ’ (1991), ‘translit-’ (1997), & ‘perch’ (2001).

for anthologized texts, see many-mouthed birds:contemporary writing by chinese canadians (vancouver: 1991); shakti’s words: an anthology of south asian canadian women’s poetry (toronto: 1993); outloud (hong kong: 2002); & wwnorton’s forthcoming contemporary voices of the far east (2007).  for publications in journals, see contemporary verse 2 (winnipeg: 1988), ankur, canadian literature (vancouver:1992), westcoast line (vancouver: 1997), prairie fire (winnipeg: 2001), & how2journal.com (indian innnovation, vol.2 no.4. spring 2006).

jam lives in the special administrative region of hong kong, china.

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