Department of English, The University of Hyderabad Hosts Two Poets: Kazim Ali & Sridala Swami

Department of English

The University of Hyderabad

 

Hosts Two Poets

 

Kazim Ali

&

Sridala Swami

 

13 Jan. 2016

2.30 PM

ASIHSS Hall, Department of English

 

Kazim Ali is the author of four volumes of poetry, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities and Sky Ward (that won the Ohiona Award in Poetry), two novels Quinn's Passage (BlazeVox Books), named one of the Best Books of 2005 by Chronogram, and The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press) and two volumes of nonfiction, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press) and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice (Tupelo Press). His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, and New Orleans Review.  He is currently Director of the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College.

Sridala Swami is the author is the author of poetry collections, A Reluctant Survivor and Escape Artist. Her creative and critical work has been published in Wasafiri, The South Asian Review, Her Kind (the VIDA blog), and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. She attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

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