Kazim Ali, UAlbany alum (B.A. ‘93, M.A. ’95), is an award-winning poet, translator, novelist, essayist, founder of the nonprofit press Nightboat Books, and Professor of Creative Writing at UC San Diego.
He will present his most recent collection, Sukun: New and Selected Poems (2023). The Publishers Weekly reviewer said, “This dazzling retrospective showcases Ali’s multifaceted voice in poems of lyric daring. Ali’s linguistic interests are seemingly infinite― from the Vedas to the roots of English and Arabic― but common threads reach across the poems, including migration, prayer, and the creative act itself.”
7:30 p.m. – Poetry reading, Conversation / Q&A
Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222
Earlier that day, Kazim Ali will deliver the Living in Languages 7th Annual Colloquium Keynote Address. He will speak on “Making America Monstrous Again: Queerness, Community, and the Problems of Translation in Frankenstein.”
Noon Wednesday, April 2.
Lecture Center 06
University at Albany. His address will be both on Zoom and in person.
Register for the free event at https://forms.gle/VG7gGZxN6t3DoFVr7
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Living in Languages, a collaboration of the Departments of English, and Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
