Please join us for an evening with award-winning writer Kazim Ali. Kazim will read selections from his work and also share reflections on his recent trip to Palestine and Israel.

Thursday, October 20
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
The DC Center
1318 U Street, NW
$5 suggested donation

Kazim Ali is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day. As a translator, he has published Water's Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri.

Ali is also the author of the novel Quinn's Passage, named one of "The Best Books of 2005" by Chronogram magazine, The Disappearance of Seth, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence, and Fasting for Ramadan.

He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program of the University of Southern Maine and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books.

Sponsored by:
The Asian American Literary Review
The DC Center for the LGBT Community
Interfaith Peace-Builders
Split This Rock

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