Elliott Bay Book Company
N/A
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Two stellar poets are joined by a third in reading and conversation via virtual means here this evening. Kazim Ali, poet, translator (in more directions than one), novelist, memoirist, writer in various forms (this doesn’t begin to say it) is on hand with his newest book of poems, The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James Books). Reading with him, in what would be the ‘host’ position were we doing this in-person is Tacoma-based poet and head of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, Rick Barot, whose new collection, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions), has just been longlisted for the 2020 National Book Awards. Joining them in conversation will be poet Paisley Rekdal, whose most recent books are Nightingale (poetry) and The Broken Country (prose). Register here.
Rick Barot
Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is the author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water, as well as several volumes of poetry, novels, essay collections, and cross-genre texts. He is currently a professor of Literature and Writing at the University of California, San Diego.
In The Galleons, Rick Barot widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism.