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I'm particularly jazzed about this Sunday's Feast, which is free and features four super-talented poets: Kazim Ali, Paula Bohince, Katherine Dimma, and Robin Beth Schaer. This Sunday, November 13, 5-7 p.m., at CAMAJE bistro, 85 MacDougal St. betweeen Bleecker and Houston. Eats—by beloved chef Abby Hitchcock—are inexpensive, optional, and delicious. The special Feast menu includes popular favorites from the bistro's dinner and dessert menus. Listen, eat, enjoy!
More about the readers:
Kazim Ali is the author of two books, The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award, and Quinn's Passage, named by Chronogram as one of The Best Books of 2005. He's the publisher of Nightboat Books and assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Shippensburg University. Here are some poems.
Paula Bohince received an MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Agni, Field, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2005. She has won the Grolier Poetry Prize, held a residency at the MacDowell Colony, and received an artist's grant from the Puffin Foundation. She is completing her first book. Here are two of her poems.
Born in Toronto, Katherine Dimma holds degrees in literature, photography, and creative writing from McGill University, The School of Visual Arts, and NYU, respectively. Her poems have appeared in several journals including Barrow Street, Hejira, Redactions, and Thin Air. Nightboat Books published her chapbook Wind in the Trees in the spring of 2004.
Robin Beth Schaer works at the Academy of American Poets and has taught writing at Columbia University and Cooper Union. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Rattapallax, Small Spiral Notebook, Denver Quarterly, and Guernica, and are forthcoming in Spinning Jenny. Here's a poem.
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- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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