{"id":558,"date":"2008-04-30T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2008-04-30T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T12:41:00","slug":"pen-festival-of-world-literature-language-for-a-new-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/pen-festival-of-world-literature-language-for-a-new-century\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN Festival of World Literature: Language for a new Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SBhqeTqLhuI\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/LIt24cQtL20\/s1600-h\/LfNC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SBhqeTqLhuI\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/LIt24cQtL20\/s400\/LfNC.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195019239077676770\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday, May 1<br \/><strong>Where:<\/strong> Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave.<br \/><strong>What time:<\/strong> 1\u20132:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>With Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar, and special guest poets Mong-Lan<br \/>Joseph Legaspi<br \/>Pireeni Sundaralingam<br \/>Meena Alexander<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public. No reservations.<br \/>Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a global exploration of contemporary poetry as we celebrate the release of the anthology <em>Language for a New Century<\/em>, recently published by W.W. Norton &amp; 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.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond When: Thursday, May 1Where: Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave.What time: 1\u20132:30 p.m. With Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}