Up Coming Events
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop and the Democracy Center had a wonderful event on May 9th with four poets
Khin Aung Aye, from Burma
James Byrne, From England
Adrie Kusserow, From Vermont
and Zeyar Lynn, from Burma
Adrie Kusserow and Zeyar Lynn
Friday, May 31st 7:00 P.M.
Reading and Signing
Anis Shivani
Reading from
My Tranquil War
Anis Shivani will read from his debut book of poetry, My Tranquil War and Other Poems, recently released by NYQ Books. His short fiction collection, The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, has just been published by C&R Press, and his novel Karachi Raj is forthcoming in October 2013. His other books include Anatolia and Other Stories (2009) and Against the Workshop (2011). His recently completed projects include a book of sonnets called Soraya and a book of criticism called Literature at the Global Crossroads. Currently he is working on a new poetry book called Empire, a novel called Abruzzi, 1936, and a new book of criticism on “plastic realism” in recent American fiction. His work appears in Boston Review, Southwest Review, Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Epoch, Fence, Boulevard, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, George Review, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Subtropics, Verse, Quarterly West, and many other journals. He is a graduate of Harvard College, and lives in Houston, Texas.
When I first plunged into Anis Shivani’s My Tranquil War, I had the impression two of my most admired dead poet friends were one-upping each other in the afterlife—Tom Disch with his straight-faced drop-dead virtuoso satire of literary and political pretension and Aga Shahid Ali with his eloquent, global, polyglot formal legerdemain—both of them knowing more about history and about literature than ninety-nine percent of their readers. But Shivani’s poems are no phantoms, they are vibrant, new, knowledgeable, daring, and welcome.
—Marilyn Hacker
Tickets to this event are available on Event Brite
http://grolierpoetrybookshop.eventbrite.com
Suggested donation is $5:00


