Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, October 19, 2014 6:30--8 pm (PROMPT START) 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contributon HASSANAL ABDULLAH, STANLEY BARKAN, MICHAEL GRAVES & OPEN READING Hassanal Abdullah Hassanal Abdullah introduced Swatantra Sonnets with seven-seven stanza and abcdabc efgdefg rhyming scheme. Mr. Abdullah, a poet, novelist, critic, translator and the author of 24 books in various genre, also wrote a 314-page epic, Nakkatra O Manusher Prochhad, focused on the Universe and life’s connection to it which uses almost all the major scientific theories and evolutionary understandings. The second edition of his Selected Poems in Bengali was published in 2014, and his bilingual poetry collection, Breath of Bengal, is available from Cross-Cultural Communications, Marrick, New York. Under the Thin Layer of Light, a new bilingual collection is scheduled to publish this year from the same publisher. He has translated many poets from all around the world into Bengali and presented them in a collection, A Synopsis of World Poetry (2008), and about 35 Bengali poets into English for which he is now looking for a publisher for the projected anthology, The Contemporary Bangladeshi Poetry. Mr. Abdullah is a NYC High School Math teacher and the editor of Shabdaguchha, an International Bilingual Poetry Journal, celebrating sixteen years of publication. Stanley H. Barkan is the editor-publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, a small literary arts, non-commercial press focusing on bilingual poetry, which has, to date, published some 400 titles in 50 different languages. His own work, which has been translated into 25 different languages, has been published in 17 different collections, several others of which are bilingual (Bulgarian, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Sicilian). He will be reading from his two latest books, Sailing the Yangtze and Tango Nights (both published by The Feral Press, 2014). Among the many honors he has received, he most treasures the 2011 Korean Expatriate Literature Association award “for his contribution to the promotion of the globalization of Korean literature through exchanges of Korean and American poetry” and Peter Thabit Jones’s special 2014 “Stanley H. Barkan” tribute issue of the Swansea, Wales-based international poetry magazine, The Seventh Quarry, published with a gathering of poems and interviews and photos and art by the many poets and writers and translators and photographers and artists Stanley has worked with during the last four decades. Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001). In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... . .
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