From THE FAR MOSQUE to GLORYLAND
Kazim
Ali of Beacon, New York and Anne Marie Macari of Lambertville, New
Jersey both had new poetry collections published by Alice James Books in Farmington,
Maine, in 2005.
The Far Mosque is Ali’s first published poetry book, although he the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (BlazeVox, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Catamaran, and in the anthologies Writing the Lines of Our Hands and Risen From the East. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, he is the publisher of Nightboat Books and assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University.
Macari
read for us several years ago from her book, Ivory Cradle, which won the
APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000. Her poems have been published in many
magazines, such as TriQuarterly, The American Poetry Review, Five Points,
and The Iowa Review. She is on the core faculty of the New England College
low residency MFA program. Gloryland is her second book of poetry.
Jo Pitkin of Cold Spring will introduce the poets. At the start of her career in book publishing, Pitkin was the first paid staff member at Alice James when it was in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in Dark Horse, Ironwood, Quarterly West, Nimrod, and other journals.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.