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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Kazim Ali


Afternoon Discussion
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Brighton Writing Center (11-208)
2:00 PM
Co-sponsored by WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) and the Writing Center

Evening Reading
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A)
7:00 PM
Open to Public
Sponsored by English/Philosophy Department

About the Poet Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali (www.kazimali.com) was born in the United Kingdom and raised in an Islamic household. He holds degrees from University at Albany and NYU. His books include The Far Mosque (Alice James); the novel Quinn’s Passage (BlazeVox), and an e-chapbook, River Road, which appeared in Bridges: a Journal of Jewish Feminist Literature. His poetry has recently appeared in jubilat, Barrow Street, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry 2007.


In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply spiritual and meditative book exploring the rhetoric of prayer. His poems are nothing shy of meditative ecstasy.



Tony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy
03/25/2009