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5/4/2002

Rattapallax Readings

Mid-Manhattan Library, New York

Featuring poetry by Mahmoud Abu Hashhash, Muftah al-Amari, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Muhammad al-Dayrawi, Maram al-Massri, Waleed al-Shaikh, Tahar Bekri, Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Iman Mersal, Amjad Nasser, Fatima Qindil, Amina Saïd, Ghada Shafi?I, Habib Tengour & Saadi Youssef

Saturday, April 6, 2002 at 2 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. at 40th St., NYC FREE

Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, where he had his primary education. He went on to earn an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, where he taught creative writing and won an Academy of American Poets award. A professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge, he has published poems in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Callaloo, Poetry East, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review and The Pushcart Prize anthology. He was awarded the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University for 1995-96.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books of poetry, including Squares and Courtyards (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), Winter Numbers (1994), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994), which received the Poets' Prize; Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986); Assumptions (1985); Taking Notice (1980); Going Back to the River (1990), for which she received a Lambda Literary Award; Separations (1976); and Presentation Piece (1974), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award winner. She was editor of The Kenyon Review from 1990 to 1994, and has received numerous honors, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, at the Graduate School, City University of New York, and the Co-director of the Henri Peyre French Institute. She is past president of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the Academy of Literary Studies, and recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Getty Fellowships. She is the author, editor, or translator of over forty books on literature and the arts.

Contributors:
Mahmoud Abu Hashhash is a Palestinian born in the al-Fawar refugee camp in 1971. He has published a book of poems and several short stories in Palestinian journals. He lives in Ramallah and works with an educational foundation.

Muftah al-Amari is one of the few Libyan poets to gain recognition in the Arab world. He has published three volumes of poetry and one volume of criticism. Anas al-Ayla was born 1975 in Qalqilia and is among the new generation of Palestinian poets. He was wounded during the first intifada. An arts activist, he lives in Ramalla.

Fadhil Al-Azzawi as born in Kirkuk in northern Iraq and has a PhD in Journalism from Leipzig University. He edited the largest newspaper in Iraq, al-Manar, and worked as a journalist for al-Kindil. He is the author Manifest of Poetry and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

Muhammad al-Dayrawi is a Palestinian poet, born in 1976 in Gaza. A pharmacist by training, he has published one book of poems.

Maram al-Massri is a Syrian poet living in France. She has published three books of poetry and is published widely in the Arab world.

Waleed al-Shaikh is a Palestinian poet born in 1970. He studied law in Russia and lives in Bethlehem, where he continues to write for Palestinian and Arab journals.

S. V. Atalla holds an M.A. in comparative literature from UCLA. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Banipal, Mediterraneans, and Two Lines, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.

Tahar Bekri was born in 1951 in Tunisia. A poet and a university tteacher, he is considered by the critics as one of the most important voices of the Maghreb. He writes in French and Arabic, and his poetry has been translated in many languages.

Andrée Chedid was born and educated in Cairo, Egypt, and won the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Mallarmé. She is the author of The Return to Beirut and The Sixth Day from Serpents Tail, and The Multiple Child (Mercury House).

Annie Finchs books of poetry include Over Dark Arches (a 2000 National Poetry Series finalist); Eve (Story Line, 1997); and the forthcoming epic poem Marie Moving (Story Line, 2002). Her book on poetics, The Ghost of Meter, has just been reissued in paperback, and her anthology A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women is in its fifth printing. She is an Associate Professor at Miami University and lives in Cincinnati and in Maine.

Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, resident in France since 1973, author of a dozen collections of poems and as many novels. She received the Prix Mallarmé in 1987 for Monologue du mort, the Prix Apollinaire in 1980 for Les Ombres et leurs cris, and the Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un peuple dargile in 1992. Her Anthologie personnelle, a selection of her previously published and new poems was published in Paris by Actes Sud in 1997. Her most recent collection, Compassion des Pierres, was published by Editions de la Difference in 2001. She was named a Chevalier de la Légion dHonneur in 2000. A collection entitled Here There Was Once a Country was published by Oberlin College Press in 2001.

Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet born in 1965 and is widely considered the most talented among the 90s poets, she has published three books of poetry.

Amjad Nasser began writing and publishing in Beirut while working with the Palestinian liberation movement. He has published six books of poetry and lives in London, where he edits the daily newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi.

Fatima Qindil is Egypts most experimental poet and has published four books of poetry and several plays. She currently edits the renowned journal Fusuul.

Amina Saïd was born in Tunisia, and now lives in Paris. She is the author of eight collections of poems, the most recent being De Décembre à la mer, published this year by les Éditions de la Différence. She has also published two collections of Tunisian stories and fables, and several translations into French of the novels of the Filipino writer F. Sionil José.

Ghada Shafii is a Palestinian poet born in 1977 in Acre. Widely published in Palestinian journals, she has participated in a number of international festivals. A student of philosphy and comparative literature at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, she has published one book of poems.

Habib Tengour was born in 1947 in Mostaganem, Algeria. His poetic works include Topapakitaques, la poésie-île, 1977, La Nacre à lâme, 1981, Schistes de Tahmad 2, 1983, LArc de la Cicatrice, 1983. Other works include Le Vieux de la montagne, 1983, Sultan Galiev ou la Rupture des stock, 1985, LEpreuve de larc, 1990. Trained as a sociologist, he teaches in university both in Algeria and in France.

Saadi Youssef is an Iraqi poet in exile and a prominent figure in Jamaat al-Ruwwad (The Group of Pioneers), which was established in the early 1950s. He is a journalist with the Iraqi opposition groups in Damascus, Syria, and has recently lectured at the University of Texas. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review.

Image: Marilyn Hacker

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