PEN Festival of World Literature: Language for a new Century

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

When: Thursday, May 1
Where: Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave.
What time: 1–2:30 p.m.

With Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar, and special guest poets Mong-Lan
Joseph Legaspi
Pireeni Sundaralingam
Meena Alexander

Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Join us for a global exploration of contemporary poetry as we celebrate the release of the anthology Language for a New Century, recently published by W.W. Norton & Co. Featuring hundreds of poets from Beijing to Berlin, Casablanca to California, the anthology is the most ambitious and far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available. This reading will be followed by a discussion with the editors Ravi Shankar, Nathalie Handal, and Tina Chang, moderated by Pierre Joris.

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