Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, novelist, translator, critic, scholar, and activist who teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include Islanders (City Lights), and neither wit nor gold: from then (Ugly Duckling). His After Jews and Arabs (University of Minnesota), was the subject of a 20th anniversary conference at Georgetown in 2012. He has translated widely, including Sarajevo Blues and Nine Alexandrias by Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinović, both from City Lights. A new book of essays, a little history, and a 10th anniversary reprint of from the warring factions came out in 2013 from re:public / UpSet. He is the initiator and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a series of student and guest edited archival texts emerging from the New American Poetry, for which he has just received an American Book Award.
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Events
Workshop, Reading, Performance & Screening
Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change
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Conversation
John Wieners’ Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles
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Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett
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