Poetry and Book Readings At Wesleyan Thursday

Writing at Wesleyan presents authors

ALAN GILBERT
POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR
8 PM, Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
Russell House, 350 High Street

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, The Treatment of Monuments (SplitLevel Texts, 2013) and Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem, 2012), as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). He is a Visiting Writer in the English Department at Wesleyan.

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her new novel, The Last Illusion, will be published this spring. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, the Village Voice, Slate, and Salon, and she is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. This semester she is a Visiting Writer in the English Department at Wesleyan.

Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow the reading.

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